Blogs Cover Possible Plamegate Indictments

Posted on October 26, 2005

Will there be indictments in the Plamegate inquiry? There are thousands of blogs regularly posting about this developing story. Some of the blogs refer to the possibility of indictments as Fitzmas -- named after Special Prosecutor Patrick Fiztgerald. Fitzgerald is the 6th most popular keyword on Technorati as of this writing and there are 10 posts an hour with the "plamegate" keyword.

There are numerous blogs following the story in addition to the mainstream media. A BlogPulse.com Plamegate search currently generates 3,300 results for the subject. This certainly makes it one of the hottest political topics of the year. Most of the blogs covering the subject are political blogs and media blogs. It is as not much of a mainstream blog subject at this time.

Information about the Valerie Plame affair can also be found here on Wikipedia.