More AP bullsh*t. Just like the one from Will Lester earlier today.
A dumb American poll as per usual.
Okay. The NSA intercepts a terrorist's phone call. After listening for a while they learn that the other person is in the US. At this point the Democrats say hang up and get a warrant. Pres. Bush says go ahead and listen. If we need to follow up on this person we can then ask for a warrant. I just don't see how this is illegal.
I don't believe this for one minute. The only people who actually care about this (other than the terrorists, I presume) are left-wing lunatics and moonbats--and a handful of libertarian types like some of the cranky eccentrics who hang around here.
Rasmussen said 70% of Americans favored the wiretap. Who is more accurate and who are we going to believe. Not AP-Dipsos.
I wish some pollster would ask people what they think about pro-terrorist reporters who spill national security secrets.
If this poll is accurate [it isn't IMO] then this nation just PLAIN doesn't understand that the time it takes to get a warrant guts the chance of getting any information also it shows just how uneducated the public is with Presidential powers in a time of war.
Assuming the poll is accurate, I strongly suspect the percentages would radically change a short while after a major terrorist attack on U.S. soil, when Americans seem far more likely to soberly assess the threat we face.
....but I strongly doubt this poll's accuracy.
Clinton NSA Wiretapped Top Republican
Friday, Jan. 6, 2006 11:10 a.m. EST
"During the 1990's under President Bill Clinton, the National Security Agency conducted random telecommunications surveillance of millions of phone calls daily under a top secret program known as Echelon.
"But according to at least two people familiar with the spy operation at the time, some of the surveillance was far from indiscriminate.
"Until his retirement from the Senate in 2002, Thurmond was a frequent critic of the Clinton administration, who played a leading role in the 1998 impeachment drama - though there's no known connection to the decision to wiretap the South Carolina conservative."
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"Clinton's had NSA "accidentally" use Eschelon to listen to Republicans."
"JFK wiretapped Martin Luther King
Clinton wiretapped Republicans
Bush wiretapped terrorist operatives
Who deserves impeachment?"
30 posted on 01/06/2006 10:47:00 AM MST by NavyCanDo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553101/posts
How much you want to bet most are college students?
Must be the results of one of those polls that count RATs three times to every one real American.
IPSOS is a French
polling outfit with a rather 'questionable' history
even in Europe.
Poll done during the weekday while most people are at work and the survey questions 12% more that associate with the Rats.
Since when is it a good idea to decide points of constitutional law by polling?
I'm sick of seeing our republic devolve into a mob-rule democracy because of neverending polls and politicians who consult polls before taking a stand or making a decision.
Gee, just a few weeks ago the polls said the exact opposite. Either the AP is lying or the DNC talking points have had an effect. Time for Republican congresscritters to get busy defending the program.
And time for the Pubbies to remind voters that Democrats in Congress have been aware of this program since 2001 and didn't have complaints!