Poll:" Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop"...We ARE a MAJORITY.

[in_cog_ni_to]

It's good to know this country isn't completely gone. People DO wish to keep their civil liberties.

GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!:TOAST: Here's to INTELLIGENT Americans!:toast:

Poll: Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
54 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans want the Bush administration to get court approval before eavesdropping on people inside the United States, even if those calls might involve suspected terrorists, an AP-Ipsos poll shows.

Over the past three weeks, President Bush and top aides have defended the electronic monitoring program they secretly launched shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, as a vital tool to protect the nation from al-Qaida and its affiliates.

Yet 56 percent of respondents in an AP-Ipsos poll said the government should be required to first get a court warrant to eavesdrop on the overseas calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens when those communications are believed to be tied to terrorism.<snip>

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2006/01/07/299088.html

[gulliver]

1. And the 42% for Bushist spying is hanging by a thread.

They are old people and Republicans. They don't understand the enormity Bush has committed here. The Dems don't seem to understand it either.

This ain't the 1970's folks. Moore's law and digital communication have drastically changed the power equation. The kind of power Bush secretly skirted the law to obtain clearly does not belong in the hands of a single branch of the government. It's a weapon pointed at every single American. Bush says they won't "pull the trigger" on anyone but terrorists, but his credibility is gone. And it is a disaster waiting to happen.

No oversight by other branches. Against the law. Bob Barr gets it. When will the Dems?

Bush should be impeached over this. Very few things scare me. But as a technologist very familiar with the technologies in use here, this scares me.

[PA Democrat]

2. And I'll bet the % would be even higher if the poll question

accurately reflected what is currently the law under FISA. Should the government be required to get a court warrant within 72 hours of ordering eavesdropping on the overseas calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens when those communications are believed to be tied to terrorism. Bet you an even GREATER majority would say yes.