{"id":17467,"date":"2013-06-12T12:54:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=17467"},"modified":"2013-06-12T12:54:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T17:54:30","slug":"public-not-so-hot-on-unlimited-surveillance-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=17467","title":{"rendered":"Public Not So Hot on Unlimited Surveillance State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-250_162-57588748\/most-disapprove-of-govt-phone-snooping-of-ordinary-americans\/\">Or so says a CBS poll<\/a> on the vast NSA\/FISA\/PRISM monitoring program. Republicans and Independents were pretty strongly against the government reading their emails and seizing their phone records. Democrats, on the other hand, were evenly split; evidently half of them <i>do<\/i> want Big Brother monitoring their every move&#8230;at least when the person in the White House has a (D) after their name. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CBS-NSA-J.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CBS-NSA-J-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"CBS NSA J\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CBS-NSA-J-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CBS-NSA-J.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A less granular Pew poll show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2013\/06\/10\/majority-views-nsa-phone-tracking-as-acceptable-anti-terror-tactic\/\">more support<\/a> for the NSA being able to &#8220;monitor everyone&#8217;s email<\/a>. Like any poll (much less a Pew poll), I&#8217;d take it with a large grain of salt, especially given how ridiculously over-weighted with Democrats this poll is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Pew-NSA-Poll-weighting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Pew-NSA-Poll-weighting-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pew NSA Poll weighting\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Pew-NSA-Poll-weighting-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Pew-NSA-Poll-weighting.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or so says a CBS poll on the vast NSA\/FISA\/PRISM monitoring program. Republicans and Independents were pretty strongly against the government reading their emails and seizing their phone records. Democrats, on the other hand, were evenly split; evidently half of them do want Big Brother monitoring their every move&#8230;at least when the person in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1335],"tags":[2864,1944,1943,2880,90,1947],"class_list":["post-17467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-obama-scandals","tag-democrats","tag-fisa","tag-nsa","tag-obama-scandals","tag-polls","tag-prism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17500,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions\/17500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}