Via Sam Stein
An official at Gallup confirms that the polling firm will be conducting a survey this weekend on criminal investigations into the Bush years. The survey, likely to be released on Monday afternoon, will provide one the first measures of public sentiment on this topic since Barack Obama suggested he would be open to an independent commission investigating the use of now-outlawed interrogation techniques.
Elizabeth Mendes, an associate editor at Gallup, says the survey will ask “how closely people have been following the news about this issue, if they think the techniques were justified, and if they think there should be an investigation.” There could be another question relating to the makeup of such an investigation, though that has not been finalized.
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The last time Gallup polled this issue was on February 12, when the firm found that 62 percent of the public supported some sort of investigation into the “possible use of torture in terror interrogation.” Thirty-eight percent favored a criminal investigation, 24 percent favored an investigation by an independent panel, and 34 percent said they favored neither.
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Thats one poll I would gladly do. 🙂
When they did that poll back in February it was just a few of the hard core who were outraged. Now that number is much higher from the release of the memos. I bet we get over 50% on criminal investigations, and over 75% over all!
for Bush and Cheney