Americans disagree with the NY Times

Fox News:

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The poll shows there is strong support for the Treasury Department program tracking financial transactions in search of terrorist funding. Seven of 10 Americans support the program, including majorities of Republicans (83 percent), independents (67 percent) and Democrats (58 percent).

The Bush administration asked the New York Times not to publish information about the secret program, but the newspaper went ahead because it felt it was in the public interest to do so. By publishing the story, a 60 percent majority thinks the Times did more to help terrorist groups than the public (27 percent).

More Americans blame government employees for leaking the classified info (51 percent) than the media for reporting it (28 percent).

Furthermore, almost all (87 percent) think the employees who leaked should face criminal charges and two-thirds think the news organizations should. Even so, only 43 percent are willing to call what the media did treason, and almost as many think the organizations that published the information were operating for the public good (37 percent).

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Want to bet the NY Times does not poll these questions, or if they do will they publish the results? While the President's approval numbers are still in the 40's it appears that his policies in the war on terror are much more popular than those of his critics. It is polls like this that will keep the NY Times on the defensive in the weeks ahead. Congress needs to call hearings on the leaks and try to find the leakers since it appears that the Justice Department does not have the stomach for taking on the media. Judging by the poll numbers the hearings should be popular.

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