This document was written in 1984 and was publically released in 2008. Meaning it was written during the Cold War in an entirely different political climate. It's not stated in the article anywhere, it really needs to be mentioned somewhere...
Yes. The reasoning is still sound.
It's the moral panic after 9/11 that made people and politicians to lose their marbles.
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