It wasn't a decade of Republican Fear-Mongering that brought today's NSA ... it was the Contracting clause in EO12333 that Ronald Reagan signed in 1981:
2.7 CONTRACTING
Agencies within the Intelligence Community are authorized to
enter into contracts or arrangements for the provision of goods or
services with private companies or institutions in the United
States and need not reveal the sponsorship of such contracts or
arrangements for authorized intelligence purposes. Contracts or
arrangements with academic institutions may be undertaken only with
the consent of appropriate officials of the institution.
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo12333.htm
It is the outsourcing of US Intelligence work to Transnational Intelligence Firms that the US Government has -zero- oversight over that has brought us to this place.
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