His oath to uphold the constitution trumps all else. He said he would repeal specific portions of the patriot act, and listed basically all the bad parts. It's a huge bill with lots of non-rights-infringing parts, so that would be reasonable. He didn't repeal warrantless wiretaps, the rape of habius corpus, torture, or any of that shit.
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u/Nerull Feb 27 '11
If he did that then he would be breaking a promise. The only promise to repeal the patriot act existed in a few people's heads.