No, This is The Intel Budget
By
Bob Brewin
The United States spent $49.8 billion on the National Intelligence Program for fiscal 2009, according to a <a href=http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20091030_release.pdf>press release</a> issued on Oct. 30 by Dennis Blair, director of National Intelligence.
The United States spent $49.8 billion on the National Intelligence Program for fiscal 2009, according to a press release issued on Oct. 30 by Dennis Blair, director of National Intelligence.
That put the total budget for all intelligence agencies that operate under Blair -- such as the CIA, the National Security Agency and the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency -- at $4.8 billion above the previous estimate Blair made in March.
Or is it $25.2 billion below the estimate of $75 billion that Blair mentioned in a in September?
Granted, that $75 billion mark included funding for the alphabet soup group of agencies that work directly for Blair as well as military intelligence programs run by the Defense Department, which probably does not want Blair to take over its intel operations.
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