U.S. reluctantly reveals spy budget
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The report is required by law. Release of the $43.5-billion figure, though lacking detail, had been fought by the administration.
By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 31, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Forced by law to reveal how much the nation spends on its spy agencies, the Bush administration disclosed Tuesday that the country's intelligence budget was $43.5 billion last year, an increase of about 50% since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The disclosure marked the first time in nearly a decade that the federal government has offered even a partial glimpse of how much it spends on the CIA and the other 15 agencies that make up the intelligence community. Only the overall figure was provided.
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If the free world is complaing about China surveillance and censorship of his press and internet, what is to say about this figure 43,4 billion $, enough money to buy any hardware to control any electronic traffic.
Sure not every dollar is going to this sector, they have to pay for energy and water usage
, but this is still amazing. This budget is more than some european countries spent for their military.
I always thought in some spy movies where cou saw sophystically surveillance where someone just need to say over phone bomb, al-quaida or something similiar, they instantly got tracked as more Hollywood fantasy, but the reality seems more in Hollywoods way.
