Majority Of Americans Want More Checks On NSA Spying

[Indi Guy]

Source: Huffington Post

A majority of Americans think that current oversight over data the NSA can collect about Americans is inadequate, and almost half think oversight of the data the NSA collects about foreigners is inadequate, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll.

According to the new poll, 54 percent of Americans think federal courts and rules put in place by Congress do not provide adequate oversight over the phone and Internet data the NSA can collect about Americans, while only 17 percent said that the oversight is adequate.

And respondents were almost as likely to say that oversight of the NSA's data collection is inadequate even for programs targeting foreigners. Forty-eight percent said that oversight is inadequate, and only 20 percent said that it is adequate...

A plurality of Americans -- 47 percent -- said that revelations about the U.S. tracking phone calls of foreigners living in U.S.-allied countries has hurt U.S. standing abroad. But 14 percent said the revelations have helped, and 17 percent said it has neither helped nor hurt. Still, only 43 percent said they had heard a lot about the programs, while 44 percent had heard a little and 13 percent had heard nothing at all...



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/02/surveillance-poll_n_4195379.html

[gopiscrap]

1. amen to more checks and oversight

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Why didn't the public want more checks on the NSA years ago?

[last1standing]

4. Does it matter?

n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. It bothers me

We complained back then but no one was interested

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. Because NOW they think a black guy is looking at their porn.

[OnyxCollie]

7. Because there was nothing more than speculation years ago.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. More than speculation

[OnyxCollie]

16. No proof.

No legal standing, except in the Al Hariman case, but the gov't dropped it instead of allowing the document to be unsealed.

[TheKentuckian]

15. This has piece of the OP's quote may have some bearing

"Still, only 43 percent said they had heard a lot about the programs, while 44 percent had heard a little and 13 percent had heard nothing at all..."

Saturation of knowledge is still low, the further one goes back in time the lower it is.

The folks whining about this being "old news" sure seemed to have precious few links, generally a single USA Today article and maybe a few more that referenced that same writeup.

[rainy]

3. When in the last 30 years has it mattered what that majority of Americans want

[boomersense]

5. Never. Won't now either. Soon the US will be a full-blown pariah state.....nft

ddddddd

[IkeRepublican]

8. No kidding!

If it gets too loud of an issue, Washington will come up with some mile thick pile of papers to make it "illegal" containing a thousand more loopholes that take what's already bad enough and multiply it a hundredfold.

Same thing with the 1% paying taxes. They're supposedly supposed to pay more of a percentage according to law, yet manage to always skate into paying less than before over the course of a decade or more.

[MannyGoldstein]

9. "Make No Mistake™... only by ending your privacy can we save your privacy"

Only the government's allowed to keep everything secret, you silly goose.

[Wilms]

12. And NannyFeinstein agrees. And she would know!

[bobGandolf]

13. Thank God! n/t

[polynomial]

14. Jeepers the American electorate figured it out

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The interesting thing is the holdings are education schools ITT technical, originally of the famous International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. The most quietly celebrated engineer Alec Harley Reeves working for ITT received the Nobel Prize for the invention of Pulse Code Modulation. He was awarded 82 patents. The possibility for some patents migrated along with the sale of the schools.

I could be wrong, but for an educational stock it is at a respectable price.

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