It baffles me. Given the history of the NSA and the CIA

[Catherina]

18. They made a change in 2010. The Intel budget was 80 billion USD in 2010

You may need to change your user name to 80 billion my friend I'm tellin ya, they owe you a lot more than 3 billion.

This thing is a monster. Huge sucking monster.

In FY2010, the NIP budget was 53.1 billion USD,[2] and the MIP budget 27 billion USD,[3] amounting to a total of 80 billion USD.[4]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intelligence_budget

Overall U.S. intelligence budget tops $80 billion

The government spent a total of $80.1 billion on intelligence gathering last year, three times as much as when it last disclosed the figure 12 years ago.

October 28, 2010|By Ken Dilanian, Tribune Washington Bureau

Reporting from Washington — The U.S. government on Thursday disclosed for the first time in more than a decade what it spent in total on intelligence gathering in the fiscal year that just ended: $80.1 billion.

That's more than the U.S. spent on the Department of Homeland Security ($53 billion) and the Justice Department ($30 billion), according to figures from the White House Office of Management and Budget. It represents about 12% of the nation's $664-billion defense budget.

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Intelligence spending has long been classified, but in 2007 the government began revealing part of it — but only the amount not devoted purely to military operations. That figure, known as the National Intelligence Program, was $52.1 billion for fiscal year 2010, which ended Sept. 30, up 6.6% from the previous year.

The government revealed the total intelligence budget twice before, in 1997 and 1998, in response to a lawsuit. It was $26.6 billion and $26.7 billion, respectively, meaning the budget has tripled in 12 years.

James R. Clapper, the director of national intelligence, told senators during his confirmation in July that he persuaded Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to disclose the Military Intelligence Program budget so that the public could see the full picture.

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http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/28/nation/la-na-intel-budget-20101029