Americans Oppose Full-Blown Government Monitoring

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Polling Data

In order to reduce the threat of terrorism, would you be willing or not willing to allow government agencies to monitor the telephone calls and e-mails of ordinary Americans on a regular basis?

Willing 28%
Not willing 68%
Not sure 4%

Do you think that in order to fight terrorism, the federal government should have more authority to use wiretaps, or would this violate Americans’ constitutional rights?

More authority 40%
Violate rights 53%
Not sure 7%

Source: CBS News
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,151 American adults, conducted from Jan. 4 to Jan. 8, 2006. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

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