| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/06/20, 5:53 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The new national survey, conducted June 12-16 by the Pew Research Center and USA TODAY among 1,512 adults, finds that 44% think that the release of classified information about the NSA program harms the public
interest, while 49% say it serves the public interest.However, 54% of the public – including identical majorities of Republicans and Democrats (59% each) – say the government should pursue a
criminal case against the person responsible for leaking the classified
information about the program.
Young people, by 60% to 34%, think that the NSA leak serves the public interest. Americans 30 and older are divided (46% serves vs. 47% harms). And while those younger than 30 are divided over whether Snowden
should be prosecuted, majorities in older age groups favor the government pursuing a criminal case against him.
The survey finds that the public has a more positive opinion about the impact of the
revelations of NSA communications surveillance on the public interest then it did about the release of the
massive trove of classified material about U.S. diplomatic relations by the Wikileaks website two-and-half years ago.
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