I am not a big fan of the abuses of the Patriot Act either. But I am less concerned with what Bush administration does to abuse civil liberties (although such abuses are a serious problem) as I am what a Hillary Clinton or her ilk would do with the groundwork already in place. But the affront to civil liberties that is the Patriot Act is not the work of liberal globalist, they fought against it. Rather, it is the work of rightwing authoritarians lead primarily by religious authoritarians like Ashcroft and Bush.