More crackpot thinking from Glenn Greenwald

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42. Oh, the "national security" establishment is certainly out of control: it's been oversized

and without meaningful oversight for decades:

The Washington Post
December 22, 1963 - page A11
Harry Truman Writes:
Limit CIA Role To Intelligence
... We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.
http://www.maebrussell.com/Prouty/Harry%20Truman%27s%20CIA%20article.html

And the situation today is no doubt far worse than when Truman had his second thoughts fifty years ago

But one can believe that we ought to limit our "black budgets" and the size of the US "national security" establishment, and that we should try to restrict the secrecy that veils all that, without buying into GG's crackpot notion that "the government" illegally intercepts and stores all electronic communications