S1mmo+61 writes “Salon is examining a Time Magazine article today, a piece that essentially claims Americans don’t care about the domestic spying. The analysis of the Time magazine piece (which is longer than the article itself) is interesting, if only as a swift history of domestic spying in the last eight years. ‘Time claims that “nobody cares” about the Government’s increased spying powers and that “polling consistently supports that conclusion.” They don’t cite a single poll because that assertion is blatantly false. Just this weekend, a new poll released by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University proves that exactly the opposite is true. That poll shows that the percentage of Americans who believe the Federal Government is “very secretive” has doubled in the last two years alone (to 44%)’”
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