53% Still Don’t Trust Feds to Keep NSA Surveillance Legal
Friday, October 18, 2013
Voters remain skeptical of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance programs, but most agree that the continued disclosure of details about these programs is probably bad for national security.
Thirty-four percent (34%) of Likely U.S. Voters favor the NSA’s tracking of the telephone calls and e-mails of millions of Americans as part of the effort to fight terrorism, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Forty-nine percent (49%) are opposed. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on October 16-17, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.