America’s Secret Intelligence Budget, In 11 Charts -- Washington Post
Barton Gellman, the crazy good investigative reporter who broke the NSA story for us a few months back, has a major scoop with Greg Miller and researcher Julie Tate breaking down the Black Budget, a $52.6 billion portion of the federal government that goes to the CIA, NSA, and other secret intelligence agencies. They got the budget from Edward Snowden, who, you’ll recall, was also the whistleblower responsible for the NSA story. Since 2007, we’ve known how much the total Black Budget is (before that, with some years excepted, we didn’t even know that), but not how much is spent on specific things. Now we know that too.
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My Comment: I suspect that these budget revelations .... usually classified as top secret .... are making many in the intelligence community pull their hair out.
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