China's capacity to hack the U.S. is growing, former NSA head says. Here's what they're targeting and why.

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6. The key line as to why dismantling these agencies is so fundamental to them

Aside from curtailing regulation

"...and now it will be up to the administration to be able to use that and build partnerships with industry to be able to ensure that we're countering these threats."

All these essential functions will be extremely profitable in the hands of private corporations. Cyber security, weather forecasting, you name it, it should be done for profit. Anything the gornerment does for free (cost) is to them theft of their profits.