[meepmorp]

Have a look at this poll by WashPost/ABC:

http://www.langerresearch.com/uploads/1150a3SnowdenandSecuri...

A majority of those surveyed now think Snowden should be criminally charged for his leaking and don't view the surveillance as an unjustified intrusion into people's privacy; interestingly, more people thought it wasn't an unjustified intrusion into their own privacy vs. the privacy of others.

It's just one poll, yeah, but don't assume you know the will of the people.

[subsection1h]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but in the poll you linked to, the question that's most relevant to Amash's amendment was the following:

    17. Do you think that the National Security Agency's surveillance of telephone
    call records and internet traffic does or does not intrude on some Americans'
    privacy rights?

    Does Intrude: 74%
    Does Not Intrude: 22%
    No Opinion: 4%

[rayiner]

It clearly does "intrude" whatever that means, the question is: does it intrude illegally or unreasonably? The relevant chart is on page 2: 58% think it's either not an intrusion or a justified intrusion, and 34% think it's an unjustified intrusion.

[meepmorp]

It's a bit more complicated than that.

If you look further down, you'll see that there's a breakdown by people who feel the intrusion is justified or not. Further, when you look at responses for how people view the surveillance as an intrusion into their own privacy vs. that of others, you find people are either less likely to view it as an intrusion into their privacy or more likely to view it as a justified intrusion.