It is a genius program, Congress gave autonomy to Homeland Security to raise or lower security thresholds. No representative could EVER roll back the Patriot Ac

It is a genius program, Congress gave autonomy to Homeland Security to raise or lower security thresholds. No representative could EVER roll back the Patriot Act, you can never accurately point out that any of it is security theatre in case something actually did happen. You can never actually argue for making Americans less safe. So letting Homeland Security have discretion over it with their various programs is actually pretty genius.