Abuse of power: why worry about that?

Over the last year I've been involved in a series of heated email exchanges with the man who used to be known as "check my ip." He's a textbook authoritarian, reflexively defending the Bush administration's crimes in the name of security, while openly scoffing at the idea that government abuse of power is something reasonable people should be concerned about. I've given up on the emails, but I can't help but wonder what empty excuse he'd muster to salve the cognitive dissonance from the story about how the FBI concealed evidence that would have spared four men from 30 years in prison, rewarded and promoted those who orchestrated the cover-up, and now the taxpayers have to pay the $100,000,000 settlement. I'm sure he'd mutter something about a few bad seeds and then blame the liberal media.