Lieberman campaign officially to blame for crashing own website

Remember when Senator Lieberman's website went down the night before the Democratic primary back in August 2006? I do because we covered it on CNN. The Lieberman camp was convinced they'd been attacked and pointed fingers at the Ned Lamont campaign and its supporters. We had to be careful how we reported the story at the time because Lamont's campaign and its supporters insisted they had nothing to do with it and that it was the Lieberman webmaster's lousy webmastering.

Turns out they were right. According to The Stamford Advocate, Lieberman's camp brought down its own web operations:

According to the FBI memo, the site crashed because Lieberman officials continually exceeded a configured limit of 100 e-mails per hour the night before the primary.

"The system administrator misinterpreted the root cause," the memo stated

Oops.