Analyst's note:  If proven to be true, this is exactly the kind of thing that can NOT be allowed to stand .... see With Obama, the reality of 1984 is chilling.

One of the reasons that we are all rightfully concerned with this situation today is that we do NOT TRUST any federal government (just as it is supposed to be) .... but especially distrust this Obama administration!  Perhaps we should add this to the scandals associated with this administration, such as the IRS illegal targeting of conservatives, the insider trading, attempts to muzzle the media, the Benghazi affair, the real potential of a 'Coup d'Etat' to 'take over this country', liars operating publically in OUR government, attempts at redifining "domestic enemies", years of ignoring our national borders being used for political advantage, enemy murders being called "work-place violence", raw hubristic arrogance by those who should remember they work for the American people, illegally targeting of veterans, drones monitoring our farmers, collecting our DNA without guilt, Muslim Brotherhood and other jihadist operating within our government, dwindling ammunition supply for the America people, illegal immigration, growing concerns about wide-spread voting irregularities, repeated attempt to remove our absolute right to bear arms, socialist/Marxist tendencies by many in our federal service ..... the list is almost unending "transformation" this country to what?

As a good American citizen, I am watchful and naturally distrustful of the potential abuse of government power.  Maybe it is just me, but I do NOT see the NSA scanning and storing of meta-data as a problem .... so far.  Use it for political reasons such as described in Enemies of the State - foreign and domestic: Soldiers Not to Read Levin, Limbaugh or Hannity in Uniform and minds will quickly change.   From the public reports, NSA is NOT going beyond that knowledge which is available from my mail being carried by a third-party .... without a court order. I see no difference between using my media or phone meta-data than that of the post office having access to similar meta-data available from knowledge of the mail I receive and send.

Certainly with Obama's DOJ regards criticism of Islam or Obama as criminal or as in DOJ & FBI Raid News Media Offices After Releasing an Alarming Story on President Obama! we are however; aware of concerns expressed in alternative media that provide “interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media outlets.”

The Wall Street Journal reported  that the FBI had launched together with the Department of Defense “Operation Vigilant Eagle,” targeting white supremacists and “militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups.”

Last month, WND reported Marine veteran Brandon Raub, 27, was arrested by a swarm of FBI and Secret Service agents and forcibly detained in a psychiatric ward for comments he had posted on Facebook that expressed dissatisfaction with the U.S. government.

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Troops 'targeted by NSA for anti-Obama views'

WMD - by Jerome R. Corsi

The NSA is systematically monitoring the Internet posts and telephone conversations of U.S. military returning from Afghanistan, according to a civil-liberties attorney.

“The FBI and the Secret Service are showing up to request an interview to question specific Internet posts the veteran has placed on websites such as Facebook,” explained attorney John Whitehead, founder of the Rutherford Institute.

Whitehead said the agencies are looking for “anti-Obama views that can be interpreted to reflect psychological problems of sufficient seriousness to disqualify the veteran from ever owning a firearm.”

[....] As WND reported last week, Whitehead and the Rutherford Institute in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., are representing Marine veteran Brandon Raub, 27, who was arrested by FBI and Secret Service agents for comments he made on Facebook expressing dissatisfaction with the present direction of the U.S. government.

Whitehead said his office has received numerous calls from U.S. military returning from Afghanistan with reports they are being visited by the FBI and Secret Service to ask questions about their Internet postings.

“We are advising veterans being visited by the FBI or the Secret Service to take the Fifth Amendment rather than answer questions that might end up with a diagnosis of PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, which goes into the veteran’s file and can be used in the future to prevent the veteran from purchasing a firearm,” he said.

Whitehead said that in most of the cases, there isn’t enough information to obtain a search warrant from a judge.

But if the veteran answers questions, he said, the Secret Service or the FBI might get a psychiatrist to visit with the vet for 10 or 15 minutes in the jail cell to acquire enough information to certify in front of a judge that the person should be placed in a civil commitment because of a psychological problem.

In February, Investors.com reported a complaint by Michael Connelly, executive director of the United States Justice Foundation, that veterans have been getting letters from the Veterans Administration informing them they have been declared mentally incompetent.

The vet must provide evidence to the contrary within 60 days. If the vet desires a hearing, he or she must inform the Veterans Administration within 30 days.

According to the provisions of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act any person receiving a determination of incompetency can be prevented from purchasing, receiving, owning, or transporting a firearm or ammunition.

Ronald S. Honberg, director of policy and legal affairs for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, testified before the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on May 10, 2007, that the term “adjudicated as a mental defective” is both stigmatizing and incompatible with modern terminology used in the diagnosis and treatment of people with a mental illness.

“No state official charged with carrying out the requirements of the Brady bill could possibly know what this means, as it is a term that has been obsolete for close to 40 years,” Honberg explained to Congress. “We have received emails and other communications in the past few weeks from people who are incredulous that such a term would still be used in federal law.”

Whitehead explained the problem is intensifying as an increasing percentage of the U.S. military serving in Afghanistan have become disillusioned with Obama administration policy toward the war.

[....] “I’m getting a lot of reports that soldiers are getting pronounced PSTD and there’s nothing they can do about it,” he said. “Then they come home and the process continues. The NSA is targeting veterans, there’s no doubt about it.”

Whitehead said “the technology is driving the show now” at the NSA, with computer software identifying “problematic phrases” that target a person as a potential troublemaker.

[....] Whitehead told WND he was convinced Operation Vigilant Eagle was still in operation targeting military veterans as potentially dangerous “right-wing extremists,” even though the DHS, the Department of Defense and the FBI have dropped since 2009 any specific reference to the programs.

“When the drones get here, another Obama program, the drones are going to be awesome,” he warned.

“The drones will have scanning devices that can fly over your home and grab all the digital data in the place where you live. The drones are going to up the ante, there’s no doubt about it. The only question is whether this is still the United States of America. There’s nowhere to hide anymore.”