Their mission is to target Americans who don't think "correctly". Run for a local office, and make a splash? Your dirty secrets will somehow wind up in the hands of your opponents, who will crush you.
Tie this capability with the IRS's new power over all things healthcare, and you have a great tool for controlling the lives of large numbers of people who don't think "correctly".
You nailed it. This is about suppressing dissent in America, and is a close cousin of the IRS scandal.
If it was about catching moslems terrorists, we wouldn’t have a moslem as director of the CIA. We wouldn’t have open borders. We would have arrested Hassan and deprted the Tsarnaev brothers,,,, etc etc.