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Lieberman’s website is down - and Lieberman’s campaign can’t get their story straight.

In the NY Times, they claim it was a denial of service (DOS) attack. At MSNBC they claim it was a SQL injection technique. The DOS argument is being debunked at Kos.

Kos also posted that Blanked-Out.com almost pays as much as Lieberman does for web hosting. As for the “SQL injection”, I don’t know what brand of SQL they are using but most major brands of SQL addressed this problem three months ago or more.

Updates as the story develops.

4:00pm: Empire Zone is reporting that a month ago, Lieberman’s campaign website was defaced by someone who called himself “thhackr”. Until they release a screen cap, I’m not convinced. A hacker calling himself “thhackr”? Seriously? In Leet you don’t delete the E’s you replace them: “th3hack3r” or if you are using a strong dialect of Leet, “7h3h4(|{3r”.

5:20pm: Not a single news agency has asked the simple question: “What was your allotted bandwidth as of Monday”? A truthful answer to that question would go a long way to actually determining the truth.

5:23pm: Wonkette starts to ask the important questions.

6:46pm: Wonkette and Kos have it wrong - I just called Kerry Szeps of 2 Dog Media. They were paid for web design and hosting, but that contract expired right before the CT Dem. Convention. Afterwards Lieberman moved his account elsewhere - presumably to MyHostCamp. Great research Wonkette, but the info is out of date for the current story.

Kerry also said that Lieberman was paying 2 Dog Media much more than $10 a month for their services.

MyDD, FDL, Kos and Wonkette are all doing great research and reporting on this developing story - the MSM doesn’t have a clue on how to report on this story, but let’s make sure we fact check as much as possible.

EDIT: Corrected Kerry’s first name.