On Wednesday afternoon, Gawker released a flirtatious email correspondence between New York Rep. Christopher Lee, a married U.S. congressman, and a woman he linked up with through Craigslist's personals page. Gawker got the emails, which included a photo of a shirtless Lee flexing, from the woman.

By Wednesday evening, Lee had resigned his seat.

Maureen O'Connor, who wrote the story, was on 'Piers Morgan Tonight' (Weeknights, 9PM ET on CNN), where she said she was taken aback by how quickly Lee resigned.

"Part of what's so surprising is that this woman said she never met him, she cut off contact when she realized he was in fact a married person," O'Connor told Morgan. "So we don't actually have evidence of him getting together with this woman, or actually cheating on his wife."

But what we do have is a married congressman who was trolling the Internet for dates, using his real name, real pictures and an easy-to-track email address. This kind of reckless behavior suggests that any sort of protracted scandal involving Lee might draw other Internet "friends" out of the woodwork.