Coincidental Date for Obama NSA speech

Yahoo News reports that it's merely a coincidence that President Obama's speech on NSA reform was scheduled on the anniversary of Dwight Eisenhower's speech that warned American's of the threat of the military industrial complex.

This is quite the coincidence.

In his speech, Eisenhower is famously quoted by saying this in his farewell address:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

This was January 17th, 1961. Fifty-three years later, it is evident that this was true, based on the speech Obama is about to give.

The military industrial complex is the combined interests of the military establishment and industry that creates products used by the military. Eisenhower warned of the growing influence it exerted on US foreign and economic policy. As these corporations grow larger from the sales of their products, they gain more power over the US decisions in war that require them to purchase these products.

Edward Snowden exposed that there indeed was a "disastrous rise of misplaced power," although not quite in the way that was predicted. They claimed that all of the spying and wrongfully gathered information he exposed was for the war effort- to fight against terrorists. 

Obama's speech is tomorrow. How do you think the NSA will change? Do you agree that the NSA is part of the military industrial complex?