Poll: Most Americans Support NSA Data Mining
DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE
COMMENTLINE
When the USA Today rehashed the NSA surveillance news story yesterday (if you recall, the story was originally broke by James Risen in the Times way back in Dec.), the mainstream media ran with the news and assumed Americans would be outraged. At a casual glance, it really looks like the whole thing was timed to help derail the Gen. Hayden nomination. Who knows?
The issue illustrates just how the anti-Bush agenda has devolved into both means and ends unto itself. The sad thing is that anti-Bush is no alternative to Bush. Americans simply have no choice in politics when the choice is between the Republican agenda and those whose only agenda is to hate Republicans.
The terrorists, not George Bush, are the enemy.
NEWSLINE
The new survey found that 63 percent of Americans said they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate terrorism, including 44 percent who strongly endorsed the effort.
NEWSBYTES
Poll: Most Americans Support NSA's Efforts
(www.washingtonpost.com) -- A majority of Americans initially support a controversial National Security Agency program to collect information on telephone calls made in the United States in an effort to identify and investigate potential terrorist threats, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Read more.
Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (NYT) -- The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.
USA Today: NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
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COMMENTLINEWhen the USA Today rehashed the NSA surveillance news story yesterday (if you recall, the story was originally broke by James Risen in the Times way back in Dec.), the mainstream media ran with the news and assumed Americans would be outraged. At a casual glance, it really looks like the whole thing was timed to help derail the Gen. Hayden nomination. Who knows?
The issue illustrates just how the anti-Bush agenda has devolved into both means and ends unto itself. The sad thing is that anti-Bush is no alternative to Bush. Americans simply have no choice in politics when the choice is between the Republican agenda and those whose only agenda is to hate Republicans.
The terrorists, not George Bush, are the enemy.
NEWSLINE
The new survey found that 63 percent of Americans said they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate terrorism, including 44 percent who strongly endorsed the effort.
NEWSBYTES
Poll: Most Americans Support NSA's Efforts
(www.washingtonpost.com) -- A majority of Americans initially support a controversial National Security Agency program to collect information on telephone calls made in the United States in an effort to identify and investigate potential terrorist threats, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Read more.
Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (NYT) -- The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.
USA Today: NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
RELATED
Google: phone records
They are all for sale on the Web, anyway.
Tags: Bush, Hayden, NSA, terrorism, United States, spying, Domestic Surveillance
Global Tags: Washington DC, News and Politics, News, Politics, Current Events, Current Affairs, Life, Culture, Tension
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