Poll: Americans Want Warrants for Spying

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. Agreeing with the White House, some 42 percent of those surveyed do not believe the court approval is necessary. "We're at war," Bush said during a New Year's Day visit to San Antonio. "And as commander in chief, I've got to use the resources at my disposal, within the law, to protect the American people. ... It's a vital, necessary program."

According to the poll, age matters in how people view the monitoring. Nearly two-thirds of those between age 18 to 29 believe warrants should be required, while people 65 and older are evenly divided. Party affiliation is a factor, too. Almost three-fourths of Democrats and one-third of Republicans want to require court warrants.

We're a nation of laws. ... That means that everybody has to live by the law, including the administration," said Ahr, 64, a Democrat who argues for checks and balances. "For the administration to simply go after wiretaps on their own without anyone else's say-so is a violation of that principle."



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060111/ap_on_go_pr_wh/eavesdropping_ap_poll

Spying is how to get Terrorists........and anyone else who they don't like.

Torture is the only way to TALK to Terrorists..........or anyone else they don't like.

Tax cuts for the rich are the only way to keep America's business going.....

Disagreeing with ANYTHING * and this adm. does .....

2 Trillion is an OK figure to get Terrorists....

Jesus is Lord...

Have no rights? Or just that they love fascism?

crook , but somehow feel that their best personal interests are better served by his Presidency, i.e. praying in school, no abortions, and other misc. issues perceived have relate to morality and religion. They have been sold "snake oil".