December 28, 2005--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.
It appears that, despite the breathless outcry from the MSM, the American public is smart enough to know that we need to be able to 'spy' on people with links to terrorists in the United States to protect ourselves against future 9/11-style attacks.
The problem with the hysteria on the left & the media is that their objections are all based on hypothetical situations. There have been very few disruptions to any civil liberties--no little, grey-haired ladies dragged screaming from libraries. However, there have been no terrorist attacks in the U.S.
The Democrats continue to position themselves as the party one would least like to have in charge during wartime. They need to start putting national security above politics if they want to win future elections.
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