ACLU: People don’t like immunity

by Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium: Wed., Jan 23, 2008
Filed under: Congressional Oversight

It’s not just that the bad policies at stake in the current FISA debate are bad, possibly unconstitutional policies. It’s that they’re unpopular too. Here’s a poll that ACLU commissioned from the Mellman group, which randomly surveyed 1,000 likely voters. It found that 63 percent “favor requiring the government to obrtain a warrant from a court before wiretapping conversations U.S. citizens have with people in other countries.”

It also found–and this is key to the fight ahead–that 57 percent fo voters “reject immunity for phone companies that may have violated the law by selling customers’ private information to the government.” There’s plenty of other interesting stuff in there, too. Give it a read.