According to this study, the public did not support torture: http://academic.reed.edu/poli_sci/faculty/rejali/articles/us_public_opinion_torture_gronke_rejali.p

According to this study, the public did not support torture: http://academic.reed.edu/poli_sci/faculty/rejali/articles/us_public_opinion_torture_gronke_rejali.pdf http://academic.reed.edu/poli_sci/faculty/rejali/articles/us... Also, I don't think election votes can ever count as approval; Congress has approval ratings nearing single digits yet incumbents usually get re-elected. > The public supported it directly. We've known for a long what was going on. We know what goes on in North Korea too but that doesn't mean we approve. And the US is under ubiquitous NSA surveillance, along with domestic propaganda now legalized. Given this, I think the US people are, if anything, being subjugated by the government, not conspiring with it.