I was still in college in 2001 and was tasked with writing a paper on the Patriot Act, which I assumed, at the time, that I would absolutely hate. After doing my research, I ended up writing a paper that saw some necessity in forming such an agency to track terrorism on the internet. My professor was as surprised as I was.
Since that time, I have watched what has become of this, once more simple, piece of legislation and how much it has been bastardized and abused.
All to this point- it is time to completely abolish the DHS, the FISA court and any “tie-in” it shares with other agencies. We are often sold garbage by this government of what they tell us increases our security, but only increases their control over US.
As someone pointed out the problem with the whole picture is that the DOD did such a good job of bombing terrorists over there that not much happened here. But we had these huge newly created domestic counterterrorism orgs which then got turned on conservative "hatemongers."