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tsai3904
08-29-2013, 11:35 AM
U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top secret budget.

The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how it uses those funds or how it performs against the goals set by the president and Congress.

The 178-page budget summary for the National Intelligence Program details the successes, failures and objectives of the 16 spy agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, which has 107,035 employees.

The summary describes cutting-edge technologies, agent recruiting and ongoing operations. The Washington Post is withholding some information after consultation with U.S. officials who expressed concerns about the risk to intelligence sources and methods. Sensitive details are so pervasive in the documents that The Post is publishing only summary tables and charts online.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html

jkr
08-29-2013, 12:07 PM
BU BUH BUH, WERE BROKE?!?!

HOLLYWOOD
08-29-2013, 12:13 PM
The "Black Budget" is well over $80 BILLION... but it's classified as the Deep Black Black Budget.

jclay2
08-29-2013, 12:39 PM
If I have done my math right, this is about 500k per employee using the 50 Billion $ figure.

devil21
08-29-2013, 02:04 PM
Another Snowden leak apparently.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/washington-post-publishes-top-secret-173836433.html


oops dupe post:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?425741-Washington-Post-releases-Intelligence-community-s-50-billion-black-budget-summary

MRK
08-29-2013, 02:32 PM
How on earth do those poor things get by on such a paltry pittance?

Why if they didn't get funded from running cocaine from South America one would have to wonder if they'd be able to keep the lights on and find food to put in their stomachs.

Aratus
08-29-2013, 03:08 PM
he leaked the official budget
and loosely where it goes...?
they were having fits over this.

idiom
08-29-2013, 07:17 PM
If I have done my math right, this is about 500k per employee using the 50 Billion $ figure.

Lots of expensive toys, like satellites and hundreds of acres of underground data centers.