Sacramento Bee: People don't care about Plamegate [View All]

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http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/13962738p-14796833c.html

By Armando Acuña -- The Public Editor

For many months, the national press and the Internet have obsessed over a federal investigation into who outed a CIA operative named Valerie Plame after her husband, a former ambassador, publicly undermined a weapons claim made by President Bush for waging war on Iraq.

... For months I have waited for The Bee's readers to weigh in, to offer their insights and analysis, to make accusations, to simply raise questions and indulge their curiosity as they do over just about anything in the news.

I'm still waiting.

In what amounts to group disconnect, readers simply don't seem to care. This story has no traction for them.

... In the last six months, I have received fewer than five e-mails on the subject, though more have written letters to the editor.