More NSA Revelations: U.S. 'Black Budget' Is $52.6 Billion

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U.S. Spy Network’s Successes, Failures And Objectives Detailed In ‘Black Budget’ Summary -- Washington Post

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 the money or how it performs against the goals set by the president and Congress.

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More News On The U.S. Intelligence Budget

America’s secret intelligence budget, in 11 charts -- Washington Post
US intelligence spending has doubled since 9/11, top secret budget reveals -- The Guardian
Leaked Document Outlines US Spending on Intelligence -- New York Times
'Black budget' document shows goals of U.S. intelligence agencies -- UPI
'Black budget' shows CIA swells in size: Snowden leak -- AFP
Report: Secret budget cited 4,000 NSA leaks -- AP
Report: Classified U.S. Intelligence 'Black Budget' Revealed -- ABC News
Leaked spy budget's three most revealing parts -- CBS News
9 revelations from the ‘Black Budget’ leaked by Edward Snowden -- MSNBC
Report: U.S. spying is costly but often ineffective -- USA Today
Snowden Reveals 'Black Budget' of Spy Agencies -- Newser
The CIA Has Way More Money Than Everyone Thought -- Joe Coscarelli, New York Magazine
Spies, Cyberwar, And Secret Prisons: America's Secret $52 Billion Intelligence Budget Revealed -- Fast Company
A Rare Look at the Government's 'Black Budget' for Spying -- Atlantic Wire
Unprecedented 'black budget' leak reveals the scope of $52 billion US spy complex -- The Verge
Leaked 'Black Budget' Show How The CIA Progressed From Spy Agency To Paramilitary Force -- Michael Kelley, SFGate/Business Insider
Edward Snowden leaks again: five takeaways from the 'black budget' -- Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor
Edward Snowden Shares $52.6 Billion Intelligence “Black Budget” with The Washington Post -- Vanity Fair

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The 11 Charts That Details America’s Secret Intelligence Budget

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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