Poll: Fifth of Americans think calls have been monitored

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- About a fifth of Americans think federal agents have listened in on their phone calls, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Tuesday suggests.

Twenty-one percent of the 1,000 adults who replied to the survey conducted Thursday through Sunday said it was very likely or somewhat likely their conversations had been wiretapped, while 52 percent said it was not at all likely.

Twenty-four percent said it was not too likely.

The sampling error for the question was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/14/poll.wiretaps/index.html?eref=yahoo

[MADem]

1. Call your relatives over on the aulde sod, call your loved one in Iraq

or Kuwait, call your friend in Europe...or they call you. Guess what?? You can figure they are trapping your words. Fuckers.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. I know mine have been monitored

I can always hear the agent giggling in the background.

--p!

[bucklebone]

3. I have also heard that 14% of Americans think that Oprah

is talking directly to them through their tv sets.

LOL, if we are taking polls on what uninformed people THINK is happening, and then calling it news, then we have real problems. Let's try to have this thread die a quick and painless death so that others don't have to take this poll too seriously.

[sattahipdeep]

8. "The family jewels"

http://www.slate.com/id/2135325/?nav=ais

[Stand and Fight]

12. Your message should piss off. n/t

[DemInDistress]

4. I have AT&T so I know my calls are listened to..and

probably all I write on my computer..

edited to add: but I don't give a fuck, bush is still a M-U-R-D-E-R-E-R AND AN IMBECILE...

ALSO..I'M NOT GOING TO DISNEY LAND

[ReadTomPaine]

5. It's much more than just a fifth of the population.

The way this form of tapping works, they are monitoring pretty much everyone. Everyone from the Senate to the military, to you and me. It all goes into a data warehouse. Information that falls into predefined patterns are stored, organized and brought to the attention of the appropriate personnel, which is the point that actual humans enter the equation. They can then pull up the records later, as required, for whatever reason they need. Data that falls outside these patterns gets flushed from whatever caching mechanism they are using, although for some lucky people I'm sure every word has been faithfully preserved. This is why Bush has no use for FISA. FISA requires a target and a reason.

I find it fitting that Halliburton is listed as HAL on the NYSE.

[endarkenment]

9. Hardly anybody understands this point.

They've got 'wiretap' stuck in their heads.

Keep pushing it though, eventually it will sink in.

[Stand and Fight]

13. That's the ticket... It's everyone..

And it's activated by certain words or phrases. I'm convinced of that much.

[LeftyMom]

6. I don't doubt it for a moment.

Long story, but it's pretty much a given.

[BiggJawn]

7. I have proof they listen to me.

Ever since Il Douche appointed that whiney cadaver Jherk-off to replace Tommy Timbertoes Ridge-Runner at Homeless Insecurity, I've pissed and moaned about how that 1/4" "Miami Device" stubble made him look like a drunken old crackhound.

Notice his chin yesterday? He traded the Don Johnson look for some Barbasol.

Hey, Agent Mike! How they hangin' Bro?

[MrPrax]

10. Could be worst...

It could be UK labour gov't in power and you can have your calls monitored AND have to have a mandatory biometric ID card...

So far the GOP hasn't gone that far...
(sarcasm)

[Stand and Fight]

11. I think they've listened in on mine...

And I'm not afraid to say so. My phone lines have been acting nuts and the phone company says nothing is wrong with them despite looking at them several times. The line hangs up randomly -- no matter what phone I use. If I pick it up sometimes there are voices on the other end. Lots of static and buzzing. Sometimes I answer the phone and it hangs up. I've heard the dial tone while in mid conversation and then the phone hangs up. There's always a clicking static after I'm on the phone about 30 seconds to a minute... No doubt in my mind.

[INDIA]

16. Oh my GOSH!!!

I'm so sorry that the government is tapping your PHONES!!!! WOW!!! You should call a lawyer ASAP! This type of injustice cannot stand! Good luck in your fight against THE MAN! What could you ever have done to have the government tap your phones?

[Uncle Joe]

14. I know they are listening to me because I was defending Cheney

on Friday with someone after he complained that Cheney had betrayed our nation and outed our own covert CIA agent, and I said yeah but at least he has not shot anyone.:evilgrin:

[Mithras61]

15. I notice that they don't give any REAL info...

like what the actual question was, how the sample was obtained, who did the research, etc. That means that this "poll" could just as easily be an Internet poll (or even a "made up" result) as actual fact. One of the first things you learn about conducting polling and reporting the results is that these questions as well as several others MUST be answered in the report (that is, you can't just publish your conclusions and expect them to carry any weight).