Monday, June 10, 2013

Support NSA surveillance? That might depend on who’s president



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While the percentage of Americans who support the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs has remained relatively constant over the past eight years, who supports them has shifted considerably, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center and the Washington Post.
Now that Barack Obama is president, a majority of Democrats support NSA surveillance programs and far more Republicans oppose them, almost the reverse of where things stood in 2006, when President George W. Bush’s NSA warrantless spying program was revealed. Here are the numbers:



Partisan Shifts
The Washington Post

Marc A. Thiessen
 
Opinion Writer

Big Brother isn’t watching you




Not exactly 1984.

Moreover, what has been revealed are the “outward-facing” authorities of the NSA activities — what records the phone and Internet service providers are required to provide to the government. The leaks do not describe the many “inward-facing” restrictions directed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to the government that describe the conditions and limitations on when and how the data can be accessed and how they can used.
Let’s pray those restrictions are not revealed — the terrorists would love to learn what they are.
If the critics don’t think the NSA should be collecting this information, perhaps they would like to explain just how they would have us stop new terrorist attacks. Terrorists don’t have armies or navies we can track with satellites. There are only three ways we can get information to prevent terrorist attacks:
The first is interrogation — getting the terrorists to tell us their plans. But thanks to Barack Obama, we don’t do that anymore.


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