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Classified US Intel Budget Revealed Via Powerpoint

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the woops-they-did-it-again dept.

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."

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  1. I knew it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have always been saying that MS products have no place in government. This is a glaring example of why.

  2. No One Will Be Fired by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1, Troll

    Heckuva job, Negroponte and McConnell.

    Or, should I say, Bush has shown his contempt for intelligence once again, and will yet again when he doesn't fire anyone for this serious secrecy breach. Of course, Bush will continue to keep more secrets than all previous American governments combined, and illegally invade Americans' privacy all day with wiretaps and the datamining that Orwell described. America serves at the president's pleasure.

    I guess terrorists must have infiltrated the government's Powerpoint training program, because they're always the culprits, and Bush's divine right is never wrong.

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  3. Re:Guess the DoD changed their security policy by sgt_doom · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please ignore the post below yours (the one signed Your Master) as this clown obviously has no real life experience. The number for the 9/11/01 attacks: roughly 17 to 25 total - along with clueless support personnel. As to why we haven't heard from those clueless (as in innocent parties) support personnel - show some unAmerican initiative and do some research on the passenger lists of the four commercial airliners that day.......