https://reason.com/2019/12/09/ig-report-fbi-fisa-carter-page-trump-media/
Trump and his supporters were dead wrong to attribute to malice what is better explained by stupidity. But the latter is no less troubling, and it would be terrific if the media would spend more time holding the G-men's feet to the fire. It would also be terrific if Republicans could channel their momentary frustration about government surveillance programs into some sort of sustained pushback against civil liberty violations. Alas, the PATRIOT Act has been repeatedly reauthorized along mostly bipartisan lines.
Yep, police state. And power "we the people" granted to the federal government they will never willingly relinquish, as evidenced by the anti-freedom PATRIOT Act.