So Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has just released a statement that claims that newly declassified information indicates that the Bush administration’s use of pre-war intelligence was misleading. If this is true, it should be rightly distressing to the American people.

What is striking, though, is that the media doesn’t seem to be sharing with America its own concern about this issue. Consider this excerpt from a recent Dan Froomkin post:

Back in June, Zogby asked Americans if they agreed or disagreed with the following question:

“If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment.”

An astonishing 42 percent of Americans agreed. (I wrote about that in my July 6 column .)

Since then, no news organizations has expressed any curiosity, and no polling company has decided to ask the question on its own.

But afterdowningstreet.org, a group urging Congress to launch a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war, keeps asking.

In October, they commissioned Ipsos Public Affairs to ask a similar question. That poll found that 50 percent of Americans agreed.

Now, a new Zogby poll commissioned by the group finds that a clear majority — 53 percent of Americans — agree with the statement.

I thought 42% was a striking figure, but now we’ve got a majority of Americans seriously considering the fact that impeachment proceedings might be appropriate alongside a Senator claiming that the very issue that these same Americans consider an impeachable offense is revealed by newly declassified information? The question is whether new media will step in where old media has dropped the ball and let Americans discover for themselves how troubled they are by so much of what has been happening under the Bush administration as culminated in the war with Iraq.

This post was written by Freddie