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Resisting a campaign for greater transparency, the White House has decided to keep American taxpayers in the dark about how much theyre likely to spend on government spy agencies.
President Barack Obama unveiled his fiscal 2016 budget requests Monday with the continued omission of proposed spending levels for specific intelligence agencies, which are funded with a so-called black budget supplement debated and voted upon behind closed doors by congressional appropriators.
Last year, dozens of members of Congress asked Obama to voluntarily disclose the dollar amount requested for individual spy agencies, pressing for more democratic decision-making as a check against potential waste and arguing limited transparency would not harm national security. Sixty-two members signed onto legislation that would have forced the disclosure.
Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., one of the efforts leaders, calls the non-disclosure "a missed opportunity for transparency and rebuilding public confidence in the intelligence community."
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http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/02/02/black-budget-requests-remain-secret
Of course, he's no different from his predecessors on this.
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woo me with science
(32,139 posts)What a load of lying horseshit.
I want to see the budgets for propagandizing the American people, too. From the smear campaigns and the MSM propaganda, down to the brigades of lying, insulting fake personas on the internet. Representing the citizens, my ass. We are lied to and manipulated as a matter of daily routine now. This ostensibly democratic, representative nation has sunk to the level of any cheap, exploitative totalitarian state in its utter contempt for its own citizens.
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The Bait and Switch
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026164464
Twenty Pounds of BS in a Ten-Pound Bag
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026123287
Lies upon lies upon lies
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6165449
The Democratic Party's Deceitful Game":
They are willing to bravely support any progressive action as long as there's no chance it can pass.
http://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/
Obama taps "cognitive infiltrator" Cass Sunstein for Committee to create "trust" in NSA:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023512796
Editor of major German newspaper says he planted stories for CIA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026163872
Salon: Obama confidants spine-chilling proposal: Cass Sunstein wants the government to "cognitively infiltrate" anti-government groups
http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/sunstein_2/
The US government's online campaigns of disinformation, manipulation, and smear.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024560097
Snowden: Training Guide for GCHQ, NSA Agents Infiltrating and Disrupting Alternative Media Online
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/25/snowden-training-guide-for-gchq-nsa-agents-infiltrating-and-disrupting-alternative-media-online/
The influx of corporate propaganda-spouting posters is blatant and unnatural.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3189367
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023262111
The goal of the propaganda assaults across the internet is not to convince anyone of anything.*
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023359801
The government figured out sockpuppet management but not "persona management."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023358242
The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4159454
Seventeen techniques for truth suppression.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4249741
Just do some Googling on astroturfing - big organizations have some sophisticated tools.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1208351
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)He conned the country and the world.
He conned me.
Hope and Change my ass.
Transparency what a joke.
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woo me with science
(32,139 posts)if we cannot find a way to hurl ourselves into the corruption machine.
Ramses
(721 posts)in General Discussion. It shows the level of depravity and propaganda that the United States has become. America has done some evil shit, and only now am I realizing that we have been doing it for many decades. We are not the good guys, it seems.
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)predecessors on many things.
Hope and Change my ass.
Transparency what a joke.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Thomas Jefferson
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Response to n2doc (Original post)
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Ramses
(721 posts)and Im sure Hillary would be no different. The US is in big trouble.
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Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I mean, should we hold séances to figure out what the CIA is going to do next?
Good luck with that!!!