I wasn't bashing W about that. Sorry for the misspell. I was bashing Bush on the Patriot Act...and I am not necessarily anti-Bush. I think he was dealt a crap hand and did the best he could with it. I also think he overreacted when he OK'd the Patriot Act, a set of laws that would have made Stalin, Hitler, or Hussein proud. READ the Patriot Act, then READ the Constitution and tell me how both can be mutually viable. The Patriot Act under Bush was maybe not so bad, but guess what?
NOW WE HAVE OBAMA!!!
And, although not directly related to the Patriot act, you may want to look up some of the...rights and responsibilities of the most recent government branch.
DHS=Department of Homeland Security
KGB=Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security)