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by alexqgb 4761 days ago
Missing from this timeline is the insidious shift of surveillance power from formal state security to far shadier private contractors.

The most damning fact to my mind is that, outside a very small circle, details of NSA spying are "too sensitive" to share with anyone in Congress. Meanwhile, nearly half of Booz Allen Hamilton's 25,000 employees have Top Secret clearances.