AP Poll: Surveillance Program Gains Support

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AP Poll: Surveillance Program Gains Support

President Bush’s monthlong campaign to convince the public that the government’s eavesdropping program is an essential anti-terrorism tool appears to have made an impact, a new AP-Ipsos poll suggests.

Some 48 percent now support the administration’s program to monitor - without a court warrant - some U.S.-based calls with suspected links to terrorists. That’s up from 42 percent last month. Half now say the administration should have to get a warrant, down from 56 percent one month ago.

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Well, if he keeps talking, he’ll get 70% of Americans to give up my rights. What an achievement!
 
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Thekla:
Well, if he keeps talking, he’ll get 70% of Americans to give up my rights. What an achievement!
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I’m sure you wouldn’t have spoken out when Democratic President Teddy Roosevelt put Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WWII, or when they put the native Aleutian Indians (in Alaska) in camps, or when Teddy Kennedy’s brother Robert, acting as Attorney General spied on the King family. But spy on terrorists inside America contacting terrorists abroad? Suddenly your rights are being taken away. :rolleyes:
 
Semper Fi:
I’m sure you wouldn’t have spoken out when Democratic President Teddy Roosovelt put Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WWII
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You mean FDR, right?
 
I’m happy that support for the spy program is up. I would rather the NSA spy on people who live here live here than have a dirty bomb explode in NYC. Who really cares if the NSA listens in on your conversation if you call a friend who lives in Tehran or Islamabad?
 
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I’m happy that support for the spy program is up. I would rather the NSA spy on people who live here live here than have a dirty bomb explode in NYC. Who really cares if the NSA listens in on your conversation if you call a friend who lives in Tehran or Islamabad?
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That’s not what they’re doing. What they are doing is signals intelligence, which picks up words such as “bomb” (as an example) or other words which might indidcate a plot. Then, and only then, is there any human intervention. And it is only on international calls, not calls which are domestic. I also think the people whining that this violates FISA (which I don’t believe it does) also forget that FISA is outdated legislation which was designed during the Cold War for the Soviet threat… States don’t move… they stay in one place and their soldiers wear a uniform. Terrorists do not. We also now know that the NSA program foiled a terrorist attack in 2002 which was aimed at the biggest building in Los Angeles. This program has been in place since before GWB came to office. People should really read up on the ECHELON program.
 
Something I have wondered about the domestic surveillance: if the surveillance is to thwart terrorists, and the terrorists are from outside the United States, what language are they speaking in these intercepted conversations? Do we have the personnel to translate these conversations?

No one (that I have heard so far) has mentioned a possible language barrier. Do we have the people to understand the conversations?

Also, from what i had heard on the news about the foiled attack in LA in October, 2002, other countries were assisting in foiling this plot. I did not have the impression is was the surveillance program that was the impetus. Correct me if I am wrong…
 
Semper Fi:
I’m sure you wouldn’t have spoken out when Democratic President Teddy Roosevelt put Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WWII, or when they put the native Aleutian Indians (in Alaska) in camps, or when Teddy Kennedy’s brother Robert, acting as Attorney General spied on the King family. But spy on terrorists inside America contacting terrorists abroad? Suddenly your rights are being taken away. :rolleyes:
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You are “sure?” Really? Are you a soothsayer? A mindreader? Or do you simply project your own docility onto others? ;)Do you know that I am part Japanese? Do you know that I am part African-American? Do you really know anything to be “sure” about?

And yes. They are my rights. You may choose to give up yours but leave mine alone.
 
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