The Public Doesn’t Believe the NSA … Knows What’s Really Going On With Mass Spying
72% of Likely U.S. Voters Know the NSA Has Monitored the Private Communications of Congress, Military Leaders and Judges. - The government keeps on lying about how it’s spying on Americans without authorization from a court. It keeps lying about the scope of its spying. It keeps lying about the need for mass surveillance (and here) and the way that the information gained from spying will really be used … to harass political opponents. Indeed, NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping –recently said that the NSA illegally spied on General Petraeus and other generals, Supreme Court Justice Alito and all of the other supreme court justices, Barack Obama, the White House spokesman, and many other top officials. The mainstream media will not interview Tice about this explosive issue. And yet – in very heartening news – a new poll by Rasmussen shows that the American public understands much of what is really going on.