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Dick Morris on NSA Spying

January 23, 2006

Dick Morris recently warned Democrats who criticize President Bush for using warrantless wiretaps to elicit information about potential terrorist
activity should be aware that the American people strongly support his
decision to do so. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition)

The Fox News poll of Jan. 11 asked voters whether the president “should have
the power to authorize the National Security Agency to monitor electronic
communications of suspected terrorists without getting warrants, even if one
end of the communication is in the United States?

  • By 58 percent to 36 percent, the answer was “yes.”
  • 42 percent of the nation’s Democrats agreed that the president should have this power.
  • 61 percent — including a majority of the Democrats –
    said they’d be willing to surrender some of their own privacy to help
    prevent terror attacks.
  • Respondents support renewal of the Patriot Act by 57 percent to 31 percent. (Even Democrats only oppose renewal by 40-47.)

    • And those who called attention to the NSA policy of warrant-less wiretaps
    are called “traitors” by 50 percent of the voters and “whistleblowers” by
    only 27 percent. Democrats opted for “traitors” by 42 percent to 34 percent.Disinformation : 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror

    Americans credited government efforts by 46 percent (to 22
    percent for the terrorists, with another 20 percent saying both factors
    contributed). when asked if the fact that there has been no major terror attack since 9/11 was due to “security measures working” or to “no attack having been planned” by terrorists,

    Morris went on to hint that Bush’s is fearless about a Congressional investigation is because he knows he will come out ahead. The more focus this issue gets, the more it helps his administration.

    The fact that there has been no declaration of war is a distinction without a difference. Congress has approved military action and within that approval lies an implicit assumption that the president will use our intelligence services to prevail militarily, on the home front as surely as he does in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Written by untiled · Filed Under Conservative Liberal Moral Politics 

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