Rasmussen Reports offers some interesting figures on the "domestic spying" issue, very interesting.
As always, I must add my qualification that I believe polls reveal more about the creators of the survey than its participants. Polls can be constructed to "discover" the desired results.
However, even taking that into consideration, this new poll from Rasmussen will most likely give the foaming at the mouth Dems and their lib mainstream media mouthpieces pause.
Sixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 23% disagree.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Americans say they are following the NSA story somewhat or very closely.
Just 26% believe President Bush is the first to authorize a program like the one currently in the news. Forty-eight percent (48%) say he is not while 26% are not sure.
Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republicans believe the NSA should be allowed to listen in on conversations between terror suspects and people living in the United States. That view is shared by 51% of Democrats and 57% of those not affiliated with either major political party.
I think most Americans are not critical of the Bush Adminstration's tactics for combatting terror because they realize that their personal privacy is not at risk. They know themselves to be loyal Americans and, as a result, not targets of terrorism investigations.
Even the majority of Dems support what the Bush Administration has done in this case. Even they have an inkling of exceptions regarding privacy that may need to be made in the name national security.
It appears that Americans get what the Leftists don't.
Unlike those on the far radical Left, Americans know that the Bush Administration does not have a devious plan to erode the civil liberties of citizens. It's about safety.
IT'S THE TERRORISTS, STUPID!
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