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Classified US Intel Budget Revealed Via Powerpoint
Atario writes "In a holdover from the Cold War when the number really did matter to national security, the size of the US national intelligence budget remains one of the government's most closely guarded secrets. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the highest intelligence agency in the country that oversees all federal intelligence agencies, appears to have inadvertently released the keys to that number in an unclassified PowerPoint presentation now posted on the website of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). By reverse engineering the numbers in an underlying data element embedded in the presentation, it seems that the total budget of the 16 US intelligence agencies in fiscal year 2005 was $60 billion, almost 25% higher than previously believed."
These are not the budget numbers you are looking for..
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Well, they have to fund the Stargate program SOMEHOW don't they? Why not take the money from an agency that nobody would suspect of being involved? :)
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HA! HA!
take that classified info!
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And what's happened to their AMD budget?
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"Military Intelligence" : my all time favourite oxymoron.
Name that quote
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Ooh, ooh, I know!
Part of the "decorative pattern" on Bush's private toilet-paper.
I think the silly, meaningless sentence you quoted comes from the first roll, ninth sheet.
I guess there weren't any basic tutorials on computer security in that budget
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Back in the 60s there was a popular story (probably an urban legend, but still a good story) about a realtor in McLean, VA, who needed to do a report on how many people worked in the area. That would include CIA headquarters. The CIA refused to release any figures — it's a national secret! So the guy called up the Soviet embassy, which was happy to provide the data he needed.
Secrecy, often as not, is less about keeping the bad guys in the dark than about avoiding public scrutiny.
Surely no government of a free and democratic country would be based on such a radical ideal. Give people information like that and next thing you know they'll want some voice in how that money gets spent, and that way lies anarchy.
Ladies and gentlemen, for the good of our nation, for our security..we must outlaws Powerpoint. Then, only criminals will use it in order to bore each other to tears. Two birds with one stone!
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The number never mattered except to hide it from the electorate. An itemised list of what it was spent on, now, that would have been an issue of national security.
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Maybe some did, but most probably had KNOW idea what was going on to begin with.
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That is a hell of a lot of bake sales!
This right here is proof as far as I'm concerned that anybody who seriously thinks that the US Government ... faked the Apollo landings really needs to have their head examined.
Ok, Mr Smart Guy.
If the US government didn't fake the Apollo landings, then *who did* fake the Apollo landings, hmmmmmmmmmm?