> 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
Good luck! The average "man on the street" thinks only about himself.