I'm sitting in a wi-fi cafe in Atlanta Georgia with JtS. We're killing some time before we head for an appointment, so I don't have much time to answer properly right now. But here's a start... The Patriot act, and all of its attendent bureaucracy, the Office of Special Plans. And also all of the billions of dollars that go toward funding "black ops" (secret operations that bypass congressional oversight). That would be a good start. But I can come up with a lot more when I get home.