Sadly, though this is of course humorous, it isn't all that far off the mark except that in doing all the things they are now empowered to do in the vein of domestic spying they of course don't feel obligated in the slightest to ever inform anyone about having done so

The fed is now, and has been for quite some time, moving ever forward down a treacherously dangerous path towards the implementation of absolute monitoring and control of all areas of citizens rights. Sad but true even if this was NEVER the intent, much less the purpose of federal government as laid out by our constitution