I should very much like to know about the extent to which people with no ties to terrorism have been targeted and how long it has been going on. A newly elected congressman (no one currently in office) once said to a friend of mine, "They can accuse you of anything here, they could even say I'm gay." That's a strange remark for someone intelligent to make to a constituent, unless they were trying to counter information that they expected to be leaked about them.
J.Edgar Hoover famously kept files used those files to keep Washington power brokers at his beck and call. Why wouldn't modern denizens of DC not do the same thing is they could.