Poll: Americans warier of US government surveillance


A file photo of the two vertical columns of light representing the fallen towers of the World Trade Center shining against the lower Manhattan skyline on the 19th anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001, terror attacks, seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. As the 20th anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks approaches, Americans increasingly balk at intrusive government surveillance in the name of national security. — AP

WASHINGTON: As the 20th anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches, Americans increasingly balk at intrusive government surveillance in the name of national security, and only about a third believe that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were worth fighting, according to a new poll.

More Americans also regard the threat from domestic extremism as more worrisome than that of extremism abroad, the poll found.

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