The whole FISA scam and the Patriot Act were all designed to do exactly what they were used for...to spy on Americans and especially political opposition. That was the plan all along. It was to build as Poppy Bush said, "A New World Order."  I knew the American people were headed for trouble when he received the funding to build the bulk collection data center in Utah and he got expansion of asset forfeiture laws under the guise of the war on drugs. Ole Slick Willie and Hildebeast were still in Arkansas at that time.  All of this has been in the works for decades. But, they got caught. As you state, the secret dealings of the FISA court and the Patriot Act are thousands of pages long with lots of landmines embedded within their pages. I do not see how it can be made workable and give us our freedom back.