That's the finding of a new Gallup poll.
Fifty-one percent of Americans favor an investigation into the use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects during the Bush administration. Forty-two percent oppose an investigation.
But that's balanced out by the finding that 55 percent believe in retrospect that the harsh interrogation techniques were justified, while only 36 percent say they were not.
Gallup noted that the 51 percent is a fairly low percentage, given that levels of support for other probes of government malfeasance have been in the 60s and 70s. Republicans, of course, oppose an investigation, Democrats favor one and independents are evenly divided.
One other finding: if there's an investigation, the vast majority believe the last group to conduct it should be Congress.
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Posted by: nusret | January 07, 2010 at 09:25 AM
You kind of want to laugh out loud when they call Torture and Human abuse Harsh interigation. I would like to water board the writter of this article 183 times and see if he still calls it HARSH INTERIGATION! Vantura said on national T.V. that as a marine they were trained with water boarding, and it is a sensation and fear of dieing/drowning and it is torture in the worse kind. Take it from some one who's had it done to them from people like channey who ran from millitary duty 4 times.
Posted by: alberta treadway | May 17, 2009 at 01:28 PM