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FREEP THIS POLL Prez Auth Spying
Sierra Vista Herald, Sierra Vista Arizona ^ | Dec 18, 2005

Posted on 12/18/2005 3:59:00 PM PST by SandRat

Do you believe the president should be able to authorize secret spying operations on Americans in order to battle terrorism? Yes. 52.1% No. 46.8% Undecided. 1.1%

Total Votes: 94 Your Vote: Yes.


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: americans; authorize; battle; operations; patriotleak; president; secret; spying; terrorism
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1 posted on 12/18/2005 3:59:01 PM PST by SandRat
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To: SandRat

Yes. 56.8%
No. 41.4%
Undecided. 1.8%


2 posted on 12/18/2005 4:01:18 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: SandRat
Do you believe the president should be able to authorize secret spying operations on Americans in order to battle terrorism?
Yes. 56.1%
No. 42.1%
Undecided. 1.9%

Total Votes: 107
Your Vote: Yes.
3 posted on 12/18/2005 4:01:37 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Giving power and money to Congress is like giving liquor and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rour)
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To: SandRat

Yes. 59.0%
No. 39.3%
Undecided. 1.7%


4 posted on 12/18/2005 4:01:57 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: SandRat

Yes. 61.5%
No. 36.9%
BUMP!


5 posted on 12/18/2005 4:02:22 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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FReeped.


6 posted on 12/18/2005 4:02:29 PM PST by defconw (Allen/Pence 2008)
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To: SandRat

57.9% yes --114 votes


7 posted on 12/18/2005 4:02:32 PM PST by Lokibob (Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
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To: SandRat

Yes. 61.5%
No. 36.9%
Undecided. 1.5%

Total Votes: 130


8 posted on 12/18/2005 4:02:33 PM PST by Brilliant
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Keep it coming folks


9 posted on 12/18/2005 4:02:41 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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Saves lives. Treason on the heads of those who leaked this story. Shame on them.


10 posted on 12/18/2005 4:03:25 PM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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FReeped.


11 posted on 12/18/2005 4:04:48 PM PST by FreeRep
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Bogus Poll...

Should read "Do you believe the president should be able to authorize secret spying operations on Americans - who interect with foreign terrorists - in order to battle terrorism?"

The answer would be extremely *yes* with only Democrat extremists in opposition to it.


12 posted on 12/18/2005 4:05:15 PM PST by Paloma_55 (Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
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bttt


13 posted on 12/18/2005 4:05:57 PM PST by Godzilla (Jesus - The REASON for the SEASON)
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I hope folks consider some of these items before voting:

1) The spying is only done on those people within the United States who are known to have association with Al Qaeda.

2) The NYT article makes clear that no laws were broken. Any democrat saying differently is playing politics, imo.

3) The NYT article also says that the C.I.A. seized the terrorists' computers, cellphones and personal phone directories, said the officials familiar with the program. The N.S.A. surveillance was intended to exploit those numbers and addresses as quickly as possible, the officials said. In addition to eavesdropping on those numbers and reading e-mail messages to and from the Qaeda figures, the N.S.A. began monitoring others linked to them, creating an expanding chain. While most of the numbers and addresses were overseas, hundreds were in the United States, the officials said.

They were tracking numbers that were tied to confirmed terrorists and according to reports, stopped 3 terrorist attacks within the US. This is EXACTLY how the 9/11 attacks were coordinated - between jihadists and sympathizers of other terrorists living in this country.

4) The NYT article also states that the government DID use subpoenas for domestic taps in a great many instances, mostly related to conversations between terrorist within the US.

5) Clinton used NSA satellites to spy on Americans after the Oklahoma City bombing incident. The leftists never had a problem with that and all the complaints we hear from them now about American's civil rights being abused pale in comparison when one remembers what happened to women and children at WACO and how Clinton abuse his office and used the IRS to target his political enemies.




14 posted on 12/18/2005 4:06:28 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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"...should be able to authorize secret spying operations"

Is this by executive order (which constitutionally only applies to the executive branch)?

15 posted on 12/18/2005 4:07:44 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: SandRat
Done

Yes---61.5%

No---37.7%

Total votes---264

16 posted on 12/18/2005 4:09:48 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: SandRat

If you open the tool options from your browser, look for the "svherald.com" cookies. There are 2 of them, delete them and keep voting.

Just a hint from a master poll freeper.


17 posted on 12/18/2005 4:10:18 PM PST by diverteach
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To: SandRat

Yes. 60.6%
No. 38.8%
Undecided. 0.7%

Should read:

Do you believe someone should be in jail for leaking national security secrets?


18 posted on 12/18/2005 4:12:22 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: SandRat
BUMP

and

FREEPED

19 posted on 12/18/2005 4:13:24 PM PST by concretebob (We should give anarchists what they want. Then we can kill them and not worry about jailtime.)
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Voted right and bumped.

http://www.svherald.com/


20 posted on 12/18/2005 4:13:27 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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