Barack Obama

They were all horrific. Nixon and Reagan oversaw Dem congresses. You know all about Nixon, I assume. A few years later Reagan comes along, he participates in an illegal war. Congress finally had to shut him down.

Then, came Bush and the Patriot Act.
Did LBJ set the stage for the Nixon atrocities?
Did Jimmy Carter set the stage for Reagan's illegal war and Iran Contra? Did Bill Clinton set the stage for the Patriotic Act?

The point I'm making is presidents change and they change things. Bush by the way was intercepting the same amount of phone information and internet information. It may seem like Obama might be doing more, but I think it is the way the law is being applied. I'm currently watching a show about NSA: Their foreign fiber optic internet cables are currently combined with domestic cables. It doesn't have to be this way.
It is this way because of inefficient design. NSA could have put intercept facilities where the cables enter the country, but they didn't, thus leaving Americans at risk for internet surveillance.

This happened under Bush. But I can't even give Bush credit for this technical mess. He didn't design the cables.