Yes they threatened us with it. IRS going after Tea Party. Antifa going after all of us. Black Lives Matter. They never hide what they are doing, it just never makes it past the complicit media down to the people and everyone is so far into a coma no one saw it.
Don’t like Obama you are a racist. Point out he’s half white. Still racist. On and on. Maybe the media will wake up when they find out they were also being spied on. But I would not hold my breath.
Me either, the media (for the most part) is part and parcel of the whole corrupt edifice. Party members (of totalitarian states) should know they are monitored.