ACLU Polls Voters On Government Spying
The American Civil Liberties Union, an outspoken opponent of the Bush administration's agenda to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, recently commissioned a poll from the Mellman Group.
The survey of 1,000 likely 2008 general election voters showed:
- Sixty-one percent of voters favor requiring the government to get a warrant from a court before wiretapping the conversations U.S. citizens have with people in other countries.
- Fifty-one percent “strongly” support the requirement for warrants.
- Thirty-five percent support warrantless wiretaps of Americans’ international conversations.
- Twenty-four percent strongly support warrantless wiretaps.
"We're hoping that Congress will start listening to its constituents and begin to finally hear something beyond the echo chamber of the Beltway," the ACLU wrote in an e-mail to reporters. "This poll makes it pretty clear that Americans care much more about the Constitution than many of their elected officials would believe."
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