Public Polls about the Wiretaps
From an article in the New York Times no less, an NYT/CBS poll of Americans found 53 percent saying they were okay with warrantless wiretaps in an effort to reduce terrorism! When asked a different way:
In the poll, 70 percent of respondents said they would not be willing to support governmental monitoring of the communications of “ordinary Americans”; 68 percent said they would be willing to support such monitoring of “Americans the government is suspicious of.”
The article is a decent read, and I don’t generally read through political articles in the NYT. There is still an obvious twist on things – the numbers didn’t quite come out as they had hoped, but there was enough to make a story where they could put their own slant on what the numbers mean.
