Does The Long Arm of Gawker Reach the State Department?

Just after 4pm yesterday Gawker published an enormously disturbing slide show of photos depicting the “animal house” antics. When I saw the post an hour or so later it had already clocked over 12, 000 views. As of this morning 95,000 plus people have seen it. Yesterday evening a State Dept. spokesperson announced an investigation had been ordered. Was the quick response due to Gawker’s involvement?