Lieberman Site Never Hacked

Apparently Sen. Lieberman's claims that his website was hacked on the night of the primary are unfounded:

The U.S. attorney's office and state attorney general have cleared former U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont and his supporters of any role in the crash of U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's campaign Web site hours before last summer's Democratic primary.

"The investigation has revealed no evidence the problems the Web site experienced were the result of criminal conduct," said Tom Carson, spokesman for U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor. State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal confirmed the joint investigation "found no evidence of tampering or sabotage warranting civil action by my office." Both men declined to provide additional information, such as what might have happened to the site.

I don't think many people still believed that the website failure was due to hacking after it was uncovered that Lieberman's team had used an extremely cheap and unreliable company for hosting. It's a shame that we had to waste tax dollars investigating this, and Lieberman should apologize for his baseless accusations. While it was opportune for him to publicly blame "Lamont supporters" for the website failure, it would have been far more honest to admit that he didn't know what had caused the failure and that it would be investigated.