Posted on 06/10/2013 3:35:29 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
A large majority of Americans say the federal government should focus on investigating possible terrorist threats even if personal privacy is compromised, and most support the blanket tracking of telephone records in an effort to uncover terrorist activity, according to a new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll.
Fully 45 percent of all Americans say the government should be able to go further than it is, saying that it should be able to monitor everyone’s online activity if doing so would prevent terrorist attacks. A slender majority, 52 percent, say no such broad-based monitoring should occur.
The new survey comes amid recent revelations of the National Security Agency’s extensive collection of telecommunications data to facilitate terrorism investigations.
Overall, 56 percent of Americans consider the NSA accessing telephone call records of millions of Americans through secret court orders “acceptable,” while 41 percent call the practice “unacceptable.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I'll go a step further.. The NSA rigged the results.
“According to a new Pew poll, the first to gauge the public’s response to the controversial programs, a comfortable majority of the American sheeple — 56 percent to 41 percent — supports the gathering of millions of phone records in the quest to fight terrorism.”
If 56% is a “comfortable majority”, then what’s 59% on the other side?:
“Just 26% of Likely U.S. Voters favor the government’s secret collecting of these phone records for national security purposes regardless of whether there is any suspicion of wrongdoing. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% are opposed to the practice.”
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A representative sampling of Americans working in Langley, VA.
BALONEY!
such bs
Well that’s easy enough, they polled Americans, not U. S. Citizens. Evidently they found enough foreign nationals from America that they could swing this sucker wildly.
Yeah. His.
But they're liberals, you see, so they're entitled to have it both ways. Didn't you remember?
Great. So why stop just at terrorosm? They could let the gov't monitor everything that could stop any crime, or any loss of even a single life.
Hey PEW, ask them if they'd support monitoring all gun sales (because someone could get shot). All alcohol sales (drunk driver prevention). All tobacco and trans fat sales (someone could get sick 20 years down the road).
Better yet, just let the Feds mandate that no new automobile may be capable of going over 40 mph. Just think of the 40,000 lives (and critters too) that would be saved annually.
This is total crapolla from a Pew Poll of 1004 respondents.
And anyway, this is not about terrorism. The NSA isn’t eavesdropping on you and me because they’re thinking we’re terrorists. It’s for other nefarious purposes. Or, they can redefine the meaning of “terrorist” and jail us all when they feel like it.
“Oh, I don’t care if the government needs to data snoop in their effort to root out terrorists...I’m not a terrorist, so they won’t be listening in on my private phone calls..”
If it was about terrorists, they’d close the damn border. If it was about terrorists, they’d have picked up the Tsarnaev brothers two years ago. No, it’s about building a dossier of data on every American to use against us at a future date.
It's a pile of Pelosi
Have any facts been disclosed regarding the nature of the surveillance, or are most people relying solely on the word of one young, former contractor?
Is it worse to be suspicious, do nothing, and subsequently conditioned than to be ignorant? Why are people seemingly more acceptable of surveillance today than years ago? Political hypocrisy?
I have been effectively defending the NSA, but the adults still need to step up and ensure privacy is properly protected at every conceivable level. There must be political firewalls in place that are facilitated by the private sector. Data should be effectively anonymous until warranted by the courts. Not sure how to associate anonymous data from disparate sources though. Maybe through a trusted 3rd party (uh... excluding Snowden).
The organization that created the healthcare death panels should know who you’re talking to and for how long if they say it will keep us safer.
A WaPo poll is worth the toilet paper it is printed on.
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Americans deserve chains.
This is not what the polling says.
Is there nobody left that isn’t a criminal or a criminal conspirator?
NSA mistakenly pulled records. Stories are coming out that this happened dozens of times. The problem with the program is no one is told when it happens. There is no oversight. It potential for abuse scares the hell out of me!
This NSA guy claims anyone can pulled records on a whim, I tend to believe him.
“Fully 45 percent of all Americans say the government should be able to go further than it is, saying that it should be able to monitor everyone’s online activity if doing so would prevent terrorist attacks.”
“About the same number that are Obamabots.”
Too easy. What if by so doing, we could eliminate kiddie porn or what if we can save battered wives? It is a route to eliminate gun crime by identifying possible perpetrators (gun owners).
Man who could possible choose freedom??
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