Poll on NSA spying
Washington Post and ABC News conducted a survey of 502 randomly selected adults to see how Americans feel about the National Security Agency (NSA) tapping their phone conversations.
63% were for phone surveillance as an acceptable means to investigate terrorism, with 44% strongly supporting it
35% opposed it, with 24% strongly against it
65% believed that investigation of potential terrorism outweighed privacy concerns, while 31% that intrusion on privacy was unwarranted
51% approved how Bush was handling privacy matters
President Bush defended his administration’s counter-terrorist efforts to White House reporters and criticized public disclosure of secret intelligence operations. Though, he did not acknowledge the existence of the NSA records-gathering program or answer reporters’ questions about it.
Washington Post-ABC News Poll May 11, 2006
Poll: Most Americans Support NSA’s Efforts, WashingtonPost.com