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Obama campaigned against all of this, and Bush paid a huge political price for enacting much of it, but the over-reach of big government with these programs pales in comparison to anything that Bush/Cheney ever could have dreamed of...

Bush put this evil system in place after 9/11, starting the surveillance state in earnest, in effect opening Pandora's Box. Then along come the unscrupulous thugs from Chicago, and they've been like kids in candy store with the new toy Bush handed them, evidently ramping it up into an out of control, unsupervised monstrosity to be used for their own political gain.