[From USA Today]

By Mark Memmott 

Shocked by the 9/11 attacks, many Americans worried afterward that the nation was too free to be safe from terrorists.

Those fears are easing, poll results due to be released today indicate. They show renewed support for the First Amendment of the Constitution and the protections it gives to speech, the media and religion. Support for those rights had flagged in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

“A ‘reset’ that we first started to see last year continues,” said Gene Policinski, executive director of the First Amendment Center, the no

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