Obama is already in charge of the implementation of this law. He stopped the torture and he is slowing the use and abuse of the law. He just saw that this bill, unlike so many with the Republican controlled house was actually going to pass without much fanfare. If he had taken on the Congress now, it would have distracted the people from the real cause of our nation's problems: the republican party/tbagger extremism. The repugs took a vote to KILL MEDICARE/vouchering the program for future recipients. They are on the defensive, for the first time in 2 and 1/2 years and the people are listening. He has to let the repugs hang themselves. Changing the Patriot Act would have been a distraction and now is not the time to let the repugs off the hook on anything they are doing.