http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic secrecy Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.4.0.348 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002242.html Wed, 31 May 2006 09:10:18 +0100 <blockquote> <p>Recently, in a slip of the tongue, Mary Margaret Graham, deputy director for national intelligence collection under Negroponte, offered (for only the third time since the founding of the CIA) a public estimate of the overall annual U.S. intelligence budget – $44 billion just to cover the iconic 15. Undoubtedly, that's a low-ball figure, but as a crude measure of IC growth, consider that it's almost $18 billion higher than the 1998 IC budget – that being the last time such an estimate came our way. |Via <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt192.html">Tom Engelhardt</a>|</p> </blockquote> <p>Ye gods! $44 billion/yr is the low-ball estimate for all this secrecy and black operations? Has it all been worth it?</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002242.html