CBS News Poll-Senate Torture Report
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CBS News poll on the Senate Intelligence Committees report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program
Transcript of CBS News Poll-Senate Torture Report
CBS NEWS POLL
Torture and Reaction to the Senate Intelligence Report
December 11-14, 2014
Q1. How much have you heard or read about the recent report by the Senate Intelligence Committee on the detention and interrogation program used by the CIA in the years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks?
** TOTAL RESPONDENTS **
TotalRepDemInd
% % % %
A lot
30332532
Some
33323334
Not much
31293529
Nothing at all
5 5 6 3
Don't know/No answer
1 1 * 1
Q2. From what you have heard or read, do you think the Senate Intelligence Committees report on the detention and interrogation program used by the CIA is a fair representation of what occurred, or did it leave important things out, or dont you know enough to say?
Fair representation
12121310
Left important things out
24301926
Don't know enough to say
61556461
Don't know/No answer
3443
Q3. When it comes to how prisoners were being treated in the CIAs detention and interrogation program, do you think the CIA was telling the truth to the President and Congress, mostly telling the truth but hiding something, or mostly lying?
Telling the truth
18311215
Mostly telling truth, hiding something44415141
Mostly lying
17122017
Don't know/No answer
21151727
Q3a. Do you think the public release of information about the CIA detention and interrogation program poses a threat to the security of the U.S., or dont you think its release will have an impact on U.S. security?
Threat to U.S. security
52644055
No impact on U.S. security
33244528
Don't know/No answer
15121517
Q3b. Do you think it is sometimes justified to use water boarding and other aggressive interrogation tactics to get information from a suspected terrorist, or are these tactics never justified?
Nov11b
%
Justified
49733250
45
Not justified
36195432
40
Depends (vol.)
4 4 4 4
6
Don't know/No answer
10 51013
9
Q3c. Do you think the use of water boarding and other aggressive interrogation tactics are still being used by the CIA to get information from suspected terrorists, or do you think these tactics are no longer being used by the CIA?
** TOTAL RESPONDENTS **
TotalRepDemInd
% % % %
Still being used
57576353
No longer used
20221920
Were never used(vol.)
1 1 1 1
Don't know/No answer
22201826
Q4. In a procedure known as waterboarding, interrogators produce the sensation of drowning in a restrained prisoner either by dunking him in water or pouring water over his face. Do you consider this procedure a form of torture, or not?
Apr09b
%
Torture
69518367
71
Not torture
26451326
26
Don't/no answer
5 4 3 7
3
Q5. Do you consider forcing a prisoner to stay awake for up to 180 hours to be a form of torture, or not?
Torture
70508668
Not torture
27461227
Don't/no answer
4 4 2 5
Q6. Do you consider forcing a prisoner to take an ice water bath to be a form of torture, or not?
Torture
57397653
Not torture
39572142
Don't/no answer
4 3 3 5
Q7. Do you consider threatening to sexually abuse a prisoners mother to be a form of torture, or not?
Torture
73638768
Not torture
23331324
Don't/no answer
4 4 1 7
Q9. How often do you think the use of water boarding and other aggressive interrogation tactics provide reliable information that helps prevent terrorist attacks -- often, sometimes, rarely or never?
Often
23351324
Sometimes
34353633
Rarely
24163023
Never
8 512 7
Don't know/No answer
1110 914
Q11. Do you think suspected terrorists being detained by the U.S. should have the same legal rights as other individuals who are suspected of a crime, or should they not have the same legal rights?
** TOTAL RESPONDENTS **
TotalRepDemInd
% % % %
Same legal rights
34184732
Not same legal rights
56794156
Depends (vol.)
3 2 3 4
Don't know/No answer
7 2 9 8
UnweightedWeightedTotal Respondents
1,003
Total Republicans
257
224
Total Democrats
310
321
Total Independents
436
458
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