NSA history, timeline

I gathered up a few articles real quick on NSA history.

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NSA history
NSA pre 9/11 timeline
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OR what ever other search term you want to use for NSA or maybe the history of intelligence gathering.

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Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline

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NSA uses ‘terrorism’ to justify mass surveillance that started long before 9/11 and the Patriot Act

http://npaper-wehaa.com/boulder-weekly/2013/06/20/#?article=1936457

excerpt:
But as the evidence points out, such a claim simply isn’t true. The NSA was clearly working hard to create systems that would collect massive amounts of phone and Internet data in 2001, prior to the attacks. For a plausible explanation for this behavior, we have to look at one of the most important underreported stories of our time. Literally underreported.

In 1996, New Zealand based journalist Nicky Hager shocked the world with his exposé on a global surveillance system known as ECHELON. Hager wrote a book about his findings, which were controversial enough that elements within the British government wanted to ban the book from being sold in the U.K. In the U.S., a summary of Hager’s ECHELON revelations was published in the award-winning Covert Action Quarterly in its winter 1996/1997 edition. That same story went on to be named as one of Project Censored’s 25 most important underreported stories of the year in 1998.