Good grief, Buck, wake up.
What "trampling?" A communications surveillance system that's still in place now? Or all the other things? This article tells how Cheney was wrong about Obama wrecking our national security because...um...well...Obama's doing pretty much all the same things Bush was.
(But the author says it's okay now that Obama is doing them, apparently because he's just so much better at bullshitting the rubes about it than Bush was.)
Meanwhile, the government, right now, is taking more control of our real everyday lives.