The article is about surveillance used for extortion by Cuba.
The purpose of NASA data collection on Americans is the same and it’s a power the executive branch wields almost exclusively.
You can not rule out extortion as a motivator of the GOP establishment, this is the new paradigm.
GOP?
Isn’t Obama was a Democrat.
Isn’t the Senate controlled by Democrats?
Wasn’t the House also controlled by Democrats in 2090 & 2010 when the NSA was given the green light?