By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
> 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.
And how many citizens polled replied that they had failed to inform themselves sufficiently in order to opine on the question?
Most of the media articles I've read about this speak little about the fact and precedent. Two that did speak of such things are:
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Which was published 4 days after the NYT article/excerpts from the book and
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Which explains why warrants are often problematic.
The ACLU did their damndest to muddle the issue with the full-page ad they took out in the 12/29/2005 issue of the New York Times:
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There is no comparison between Nixon's wiretaps and the NSA wiretaps being discussed here. Shame on that organization to try to make such a link.
I fondly wish that more Americans would take the time to educate themselves on this issue.
--phil