With whom is Obama at war?

Dave Carter writes at Ricochet,

We have a sort of inverted war going on and sadly, that war has enthusiasts on both sides of the aisle. This war is being waged by people who send F-16 fighter jets to Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Egypt, while seeking to limit American citizens to seven bullets in their own defense. It's a war in which our armed forces are emasculated even as domestic agencies amass military weaponry and hardware at an alarming rate, thereby leaving the law abiding citizen vulnerable to both foreign enemies and his own government. This is a war in which an American ambassador and staff are left defenseless during an attack overseas, abandoned by a Commander in Chief who has yet to account for his own actions that day, but who nevertheless scurried about the land for weeks fraudulently insisting that responsibility rested on the head of an American video producer who remains incarcerated to this day. It is a war in which our government labels an attack on US soldiers by a Muslim shouting "Allahu Akbar" as, "Workplace Violence," while labeling Americans who embrace the freedoms enshrined in our founding documents as potential terrorists.

The new Constitutional right:

We live in a time in which an Air Force wing commander removes from a base dining facility a Bible verse reading, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God," on word of an unhappy atheist, thereby discovering a heretofore unknown constitutional right not to be offended...

Surveillance

However, if we accept at face value the President's word that the war is winding down because -- well, because he says so -- how can he justify surveillance of Americans on such a massive scale without hemorrhaging from the pressure of his contradictions? Why are the NSA and FBI directly tapping into the servers of major U.S. Internet providers and retrieving all manner of documentation? Does democracy also demand these encroachments? Does history advise federal access to emails, audio and video chats and photographs? Which of the Federalist Papers spoke approvingly of intrusions of this order?