Public Integrity dot org website changes website--anyone?

http://www.publicintegrity.org ^

[Mamzelle]

I visited this site, which I used in the past extensively for donor research, and find it very difficult to navigate. Does anyone know anything about how and why Public Integrity has changed? This is not good for conservatives. There are other sites, but PI always kept track of the 527s like Moveon.org.

[Mamzelle]

Soros ping. He bought Haliburton. Did he buy Public Integrity? Would like a way to ask Byron York at Nat'l Review.

[Calpernia]

The bottom of whois says the domain is available:

http://whois.domaintools.com/publicintegrity.org

Domain Status Message:

Domain is available.

Maybe that means it isn't be maintained anymore?

[Liz]

BTTT

[Mamzelle]

I don't know. I do know that I can't figure out how to do donor searches. It used to be very easy to find out who has donated to whom, now there seems to be a wall. Frankly, the ability to search by donor has disappeared, unless someone else ha figured out how to do it and can tell us.

This is bad, I'm thinking. Public Integrity was the only source I could find that would search 527 donations. Who is the Dark Lord of thr 527?

[Calpernia]

If they no longer own the domain, I would assume they no longer own the hosting. I can't see that now since it is open for sale.

So if they no longer own the hosting (assumed) that means they can't access the data to update it.

[Mamzelle]

Have I been late to get a clue about PI, or what? All I needed to do was a wiki search, something I hadn't bothered to do before. I had assumed that PI was non-partisan because it dug up the dirt on everybody. he's owned it from the get-go. He can shut down the engine if he wants to, because it's his.

[Calpernia]

Well, I'm late along with you. I never looked.

But this also kinda answers the question about who the 527 guru is. Since he had the data, he would only have all this data because it was his data. He kept it open source to have it subsidized as open source access.