{"id":233,"date":"2006-05-15T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2006-07-19T15:51:38","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T20:51:38","slug":"americans-yea-or-nay-on-nsa-phone-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Americans- Yea or Nay on NSA phone monitoring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls have varied widely on whether Americans approve of the NSA&#8217;s phone monitoring. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysterypollster.com\/main\/2006\/05\/another_day_a_v.html\">Mystery Pollster explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Well, another day, another &#8212; very different &#8212; set of poll results on the NSA phone records surveillance issue.\u00c2\u00a0 On a new survey out today from <em>Newsweek<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/12771821\/site\/newsweek\/\">story<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/prnewswire.com\/news\/index_mail.shtml?ACCT=104&#038;STORY=\/www\/story\/05-13-2006\/0004360839&#038;EDATE=\">results<\/a>) 53% of Americans said the &#8220;program goes too far in invading people&#8217;s privacy&#8221; while 41% agreed with the alternative statement, &#8220;it is a necessary tool to combat terrorism.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 A similar question on the ABC\/<em>Washington Post<\/em> released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysterypollster.com\/main\/2006\/05\/abcwapo_on_nsa_.html\">yesterday<\/a> showed 63% endorsing the NSA program as &#8220;an acceptable way to fight terrorism,&#8221; 35% found it unacceptable.\u00c2\u00a0 So what gives?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls have varied widely on whether Americans approve of the NSA&#8217;s phone monitoring. Mystery Pollster explains: &#8220;Well, another day, another &#8212; very different &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}