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Most Americans back NSA tracking phone records, prioritize probes over privacy
Washington Post ^ | 06/10/2013 | Jon Cohen

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 ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bs; compost; nsa; obama; poll; wiretap
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To: Fai Mao
"Yeah I wonder how much the NSA paid the Post to print this?"

I'll go a step further.. The NSA rigged the results.

21 posted on 06/10/2013 3:47:51 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: All

“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.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3029567/posts


22 posted on 06/10/2013 3:50:01 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
I wonder where their sample came from?

A representative sampling of Americans working in Langley, VA.

23 posted on 06/10/2013 3:53:36 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

BALONEY!


24 posted on 06/10/2013 3:53:53 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

such bs


25 posted on 06/10/2013 3:54:28 PM PDT by rusty millet
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
Okay, so if Wa Po lays this out with a straight face, I'm supposed to believe it? And them?
26 posted on 06/10/2013 3:54:55 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

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.


27 posted on 06/10/2013 3:55:29 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama lied, four men died, and he went to hide...)
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To: NVDave
Most women will trade liberty for security.

Yeah. His.

28 posted on 06/10/2013 3:55:50 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: jiggyboy
Good one, thanx.

But they're liberals, you see, so they're entitled to have it both ways. Didn't you remember?

29 posted on 06/10/2013 3:57:28 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
...it should be able to monitor everyone’s online activity if doing so would prevent terrorist attacks

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.

30 posted on 06/10/2013 3:59:24 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Arguing with a marxist is like playing Chess with a Pigeon.)
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To: Fai Mao

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.


31 posted on 06/10/2013 3:59:54 PM PDT by steerpike100
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To: Fred
This is a LOAD OF OBAMA

It's a pile of Pelosi

32 posted on 06/10/2013 4:01:07 PM PDT by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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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).


33 posted on 06/10/2013 4:03:33 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

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.


34 posted on 06/10/2013 4:04:14 PM PDT by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

A WaPo poll is worth the toilet paper it is printed on.


35 posted on 06/10/2013 4:08:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Forget it, Jake. It's Eric Holder's people.")
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
What was true then, is truer today:

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace.

"We seek not your counsel, nor your arms.

Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

-- Samuel Adams

36 posted on 06/10/2013 4:10:10 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Americans deserve chains.


37 posted on 06/10/2013 4:11:10 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (TSARNAEVs escaped PRISM. Can you?)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

This is not what the polling says.

Is there nobody left that isn’t a criminal or a criminal conspirator?


38 posted on 06/10/2013 4:12:37 PM PDT by dforest (I have now entered the Twilight Zone.)
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To: Gene Eric

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.

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/07/18831985-officials-nsa-mistakenly-intercepted-emails-phone-calls-of-innocent-americans


39 posted on 06/10/2013 4:14:38 PM PDT by BushCountry (We Wanted a President That Listens to All Americans - Now We Have One!)
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To: Alaska Wolf

“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??


40 posted on 06/10/2013 4:15:04 PM PDT by JimSEA
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