Patriot Act - why isn't Obama using it?

[Hawkeye-X]

To collar the domestic terrorists that have been prominent as of late?

[ZombieHorde]

1. I believe some aspects of the Patriot Act involve communications

between the different intelligence agencies. He may be using this aspect to help combat domestic terrorists.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. How do we know he's not?

If I were using all the tools available, I wouldn't go broadcasting the fact! Let the nutjobs think I'm flailing about cluelessly.

[JustinL]

3. hopefully, because he takes his oath of office seriously

The Patriot Act needs to be repealed.

[indepat]

4. 'cause this nation has yet to come to grips with the fact that RW domestic terrorism is pure de

terrorism in any classical sense of the term, the embodiment of the enemy within that the Framers had in mind when speaking of the enemy within, to wit: the public has been brainwashed into the belief that anything liberal is bad and un-American whereas anything right wing is good and reichously godly. :P

[LWolf]

5. Even better question:

Why isn't he losing it, and restoring civil liberties?

[X_Digger]

6. Because it's a reprehensible piece of knee-jerk legislation..

..that should have never made it out of the mind of the most authoritarian, right wing, paranoid legislator?