Topic: SECURITY - on August 30, 2013 at 1:24:00 PM CEST
U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary
U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget.
The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how it uses the money or how it performs against the goals set by the president and Congress.
washingtonpost.com US Spy Budget FY2013 Vol 1 [pdf] US Spy Budget FY2013 Vol 4 [pdf] US Spy Budget FY2013 Vol 12 [pdf]
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