“Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s former top aide, working as an Enron lobbyist, met three times with the senator’s staff and tried unsuccessfully to arrange a meeting between Enron’s chairman and Lieberman – now leading an investigation of the oil giant,” The AP is reporting.

“Lobbyist Michael Lewan served three years as Lieberman’s chief of staff and remains a political adviser, but the relationship won’t affect the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee inquiry, Lieberman spokesman Dan Gerstein said Wednesday.”

And why won’t Lewan’s relationship with both Lieberman and Enron affect the SGAC inquiry, you ask? Because (as we’ve been writing here for over a week now), the Enron scandal is at root a financial and accounting scandal.

Politically, it’s rapidly becoming a non-story. In fact, as political “scandals” go, “Enrongate” is proving to have about as much bite as a whiny, self-indulgent Justin whatshisface anti-blogger screed…

The most telling line from the AP story? Here’tis: Lieberman “also has cautioned colleagues not to jump to conclusions about Enron’s political connections with the Bush administration or Congress before having all the facts.”

Let the backtracking begin in earnest…

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