Continuity and Change in Support for Civil Liberties after the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, (47 pages, pdf) is the second part of a national survey (by Michigan State University), conducted between January and May 2003, which queried the same group of 679 individuals as the first survey undertaken in the months immediately after the 9/11 attacks. The focus remains whether Americans continue to be “willing to concede rights to the government in order to attain greater security.” Within this context, it considers homeland security programs/legislation that were implemented/passed (Patriot Act, Dept. of Homeland Security) as well those projects that were abandoned (Operation TIPS, the Total Information Awareness Program). The study concludes that Americans remain deeply concerned with domestic terrorism and are therefore willing to accept an expanded level of government surveillance even if this results in diminished civil liberties.