What a waste! All to keep the fascistas in charge.
There are no "terrorists!"
It is WESTERN GOVERNMENTS that are carrying out the "TERRORIST" ATTACKS!!!
"US intelligence budget for 2007 reported as $43.5b; Disclosure made under law sought by Sept. 11 panel" by Pamela Hess/Associated Press October 31, 2007
WASHINGTON - The federal government spent $43.5 billion on intelligence in 2007.
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell released the newly declassified figure yesterday. In a statement, McConnell said there would be no additional disclosures of classified budget information beyond the overall spending figure because "such disclosures could harm national security."
How? We spent X dollars, so what?
How the money is divided among the 16 intelligence agencies and exactly what it is spent on is classified. It includes salaries for about 100,000 people, multibillion-dollar secret satellite programs, aircraft, weapons, electronic sensors, intelligence analysts, spies, computers, and software.
The prison planet grid!
Much of the intelligence budget, about 70 percent, goes to contractors for the procurement of technology and services, including analysis, according to a May 2007 chart from McConnell's office. Intelligence spending has increased by a third in a decade.
Contractors, contractors everywhere!
Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington said he was somewhat surprised that the 2007 budget was not higher. He had conservatively estimated it at $45 billion.
The national intelligence budget does not include at least $10 billion spent by military intelligence operations. The intelligence budget itself increased sharply after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to heavily censored government charts.
All that $$$$ wasted on a lie! To enslave ourselves!
By comparison, last year's intelligence spending is about half the $91 billion President Bush is proposing to allocate over the coming year to the Agriculture Department and somewhat more than the $35 billion budget of the Homeland Security Department.
Big Agra and fascista security money! Nothin' for me or you, though!
The intelligence agencies have fought multiple legal attempts to disclose their budgets, including the CIA, National Reconnaissance Office, National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the agencies inside the State, Treasury, and Homeland Security departments, among others. They have argued that adversaries can divine secrets about intelligence activities if they can track budget fluctuations year to year.
What an absolutely bullshit reason! Absolute bullshit to keep their law-breaking secret from the AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!
According to a law Bush signed in August, overall intelligence spending must be disclosed 30 days after the close of the fiscal year. Beginning in 2009, presidents may waive the disclosure requirement if they can make the case to Congress that it would harm national security.
The Sig Heil times?
The requirement was a provision of a broad security measure that carried out recommendations of the Sept. 11 Commission in 2004.
National security analysts outside the government usually estimate the annual budget at about 10 percent of the total defense budget, which in 2007 was about $430 billion, plus nearly $200 billion in war spending. These analysts contend that about 80 percent of the intelligence budget is consumed by the national military intelligence agencies."
The MIC in action!!!!!
"$43.5 Billion Spying Budget for Year, Not Including Military" by MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 — Congress authorized spending of $43.5 billion over the past year to operate spy satellites, remote surveillance stations and C.I.A. outposts overseas, according to a budget figure released Tuesday by Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence.
Government officials have refused for years to disclose the intelligence budget, citing risks to national security if the United States’ adversaries learned what it spent annually on spy services.
The number released Tuesday does not include the billions of dollars that military services spend annually on intelligence operations. The total spying budget for the last fiscal year, including this Pentagon spending, is said to have been in excess of $50 billion.
But, but, but, the headline tells me it is a lower-than-expected $43B?!
That lying news media again!!!!
The figure Mr. McConnell released, known as the National Intelligence Program, covers some of the most expensive spy programs, including the fleet of satellites run by the National Reconnaissance Office. It also includes the budgets for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, charged with electronic eavesdropping.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks the Bush administration has refused to make similar disclosures, fighting legal challenges from several advocacy groups.
In late 2005, a senior intelligence official attending a public conference in San Antonio revealed, apparently by accident, that the intelligence budget for that year was $44 billion.
Ooops!
In a press release on Tuesday, Mr. McConnell’s office said no further details about the annual intelligence budget would be revealed “because such disclosures could harm national security.”
Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri and vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee:
“The American people have a right to know how and where the government is spending their money.”
That's from Big Brother Bond, folks!
So SHOW ME the MONEY, Bond!!!
WHERE is it?!?
