{"id":5791,"date":"2005-11-09T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2005-11-09T14:36:41","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T19:36:41","slug":"the-public-sees-the-significance-of-the-plame-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-public-sees-the-significance-of-the-plame-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"The public sees the significance of the Plame scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent CBS News poll<\/a> asked Americans whether they consider the Plame scandal a serious matter. Despite the fact that the leak controversy didn’t generate many headlines during most of the two-year investigation, the public responded strongly — 86% said it’s important, while only 12% said it’s not important, making it the most serious scandal, according to the public, of any WH controversy of the last 30 years<\/a>, including<\/i> Watergate.<\/p>\n

A new report prepared by the Pew Research Center discovered largely the same thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just 36% now believe that Bush has lived up to his campaign pledge to restore integrity to the White House. In contrast, fully 79% of Americans say the recent indictment of I. Lewis Libby, formerly a top aide to Vice President Cheney, on perjury and other charges is a matter of at least some importance to the nation; that is greater than the percentage who said that in 1998 about charges that former President Clinton lied under oath about a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky (65%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When asked for a one-word response in reaction to the Libby indictment, among the top responses were “shocked,” “disappointed,” and “disgusted.” (Not far behind were “guilty” and “treason.”)<\/p>\n

Sounds to me like this is a scandal that the nation is very interested in and that Republican talking points (perjury is just a “technicality”) aren’t working terribly well.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, it might also be worth noting that Susan Ralston, a top aide to Karl Rove who testified<\/a> before the Plame grand jury in September, is having to answer questions once again<\/a>. (thanks to R.S. for the tip)<\/p>\n

Ralston, Rove’s right-hand man, is scheduled to appear again before Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald who is investigating the circumstances surrounding the leak of Plame’s identity in the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rove may want to keep that dodged-bullet champagne on ice a while longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent CBS News poll asked Americans whether they consider the Plame scandal a serious matter. Despite the fact that the leak controversy didn’t generate many headlines during most of the two-year investigation, the public responded strongly — 86% said it’s important, while only 12% said it’s not important, making it the most serious scandal, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}