US Spent $43.5 Billion on Intel in 2007

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

US Spent $43.5 Billion on Intel in 2007
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 30, 2007
Filed at 8:18 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government spent $43.5 billion on intelligence in 2007, according to newly declassified intelligence budget.

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell released the figure Tuesday because the law implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission required it.

In a statement, the DNI said there would be no other disclosures of classified budget information beyond the overall spending figure because ''such disclosures could harm national security.''

The intelligence agencies have fought multiple legal attempts to disclose spending for the 16 intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the Defense Department, the Treasury Department and the Homeland Security Department, among others. They have argued that adversaries can divine secrets about intelligence activities if they can track budget fluctuations year to year.

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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Intelligence-Budget.html

[zbdent]

1. and yet they failed to stop those terrorists who set the wildfires in California

despite having word of this from 2004, using the code word "Wisconsin" for California?

;)

[lonestarnot]

2. license to steal with that cloake of state.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. 2007 Spying Said to Cost $50 Billion

Source: Washingtion Post

The director of national intelligence will disclose today that national intelligence activities amounting to roughly 80 percent of all U.S. intelligence spending for the year cost more than $40 billion, according to sources on Capitol Hill and inside the administration.

The disclosure means that when military spending is added, aggregate U.S. intelligence spending for fiscal 2007 exceeded $50 billion, according to these sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the total remains classified.

Adm. Mike McConnell will announce that the fiscal 2007 national intelligence program figure, classified up to now, is being made public at the urging of the Sept. 11 commission and the insistence of Congress, which turned the commission's recommendation into law. The commission's plan was to have the president make the figure public each year.

While the budget figure released by McConnell excludes intelligence programs for the separate military services, it includes the budgets of the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the FBI's intelligence programs, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the major Defense Department intelligence collection agencies.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/29/AR2007102902062.html?nav=rss_politics

[harun]

4. Before the cold war we had no intelligence agencies

So we justified there had to be some to help with that. When the cold war was over instead of cutting back we ..... created more?

[maddezmom]

5. kick

[Robbien]

6. US spent $43.5 billion on intelligence in 2007

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government spent $43.5 billion (¤30.1 billion) on intelligence in 2007, according to the first official disclosure under a new law designed partly to help Congress fulfill its oversight responsibilities.

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell released the newly declassified figure Tuesday. In a statement, the DNI said there would be
no additional disclosures of classified budget information beyond the overall spending figure because «such disclosures could harm national security.

The intelligence agencies have fought multiple legal attempts to disclose spending for the 16 intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the Defense Department, the Treasury Department and the Homeland Security Department, among others. They have argued that adversaries can divine secrets about intelligence activities if they can track budget fluctuations year to year.

. . .

The CIA voluntarily disclosed intelligence spending only twice, in 1997 and 1998 when the budgets were $26.6 billion and $26.7 billion, respectively.

A top intelligence official inadvertently disclosed the overall intelligence spending figure two years ago at a conference that was open to the public. She said it was $44 billion

Read more: http://www.pr-inside.com/us-spent-43-5-billion-30-1-billion-r273858.htm

[msongs]

7. did it find any? nt

[JDPriestly]

8. So, are we more intelligent now?

[madrchsod]

9. i did`t notice that i am.....oh well

[blondie58]

10. and how much of it was outsourced?

[Hubert Flottz]

11. "US spent $43.5 billion on intelligence in 2007" and

George is still dumb as hell!

[okoboji]

12. how much of that....

was spent on gathering information on U.S. citizens?

[tom_paine]

13. My guess: $10 billion.

When one considers that another $10 billion was likely defrauded, stolen, or otherwise tranferred by who-knows-what financial chicanery, to the offshore accounts of Royal and Loyal Bushies, that's probably half that is lost to it's original purpose.

Third World levels of corruption is what we have, but for a few tattered remnants of Old America which the Bushies have yet to sweep away.