What Do Americans Think?

One dimension of presidential power in the wake of 9/11: what do we think?

According to the poll, Americans appear to be split over the legality of the domestic eavesdropping program. About 49 percent of respondents said the president had definitely or probably broken the law by authorizing the wiretaps and 47 percent said he probably or definitely had not. (Poll results)

This is from a poll reported by CNN.

Interestingly, in the same poll,

About a fifth of Americans think federal agents have listened in on their phone calls, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Tuesday suggests.