yesterday, senator dianne discussed it. >> it will limit or prevent contractors from handling highly classified technical data. and we will do some other things. >> let's see sf f something actually gets done. let's bring in our guests. haze brown is a national security reporter for think progress.org. thank you for your time this afternoon. >> i want to start with you. you worked as a contractor for the department of homeland security for a time. help us understand how it is that we got from the nsa using about 140 private vendors in 2001 which grew to about 6,000 by 2006. >> so hike your colleague rachel maddow said in her book "drift," it started under the reagan administration in terms of