Corporate "Big-Intel" takes what amount of tax dollars? This is currently secret, should it be ?

[BlueStreak]

7. Of course the budget should be public

Secret laws and secret budgets are equally evil.

I bet every single person on this forum agrees that there are certain circumstances where we must trust a few people doing a few vitally important investigations to do so in secret. It is the sheer scope of the secret operation that is so astounding and THAT is why they won't publish a budget. it has nothing to do with protecting us. It is all about protecting the money.

The budget can be published in summary fashion that doesn't jeopardize the operational integrity of any individual investigation. There is absolutely no legitimate reason for not doing that. The only reason is that, once Americans understand just how vast this is, people would then start asking questions, and we can't have that in a "democracy."

BEFORE 9-11, the dark budget was estimated at over $100 Bn a year. Even with our low inflation, that would still put it near $200 Bn today if there were no real increases at all. But we know there have been LOADS of increases, and one thing that is generally not understood is that the Pentagon has shifted big parts of its budget into dark CIA budgets. I don't know exactly how much, but if the official "Pentagon budget" is $700 Bn a year, it is entirely plausible that another $100-200 Bn -- maybe more -- has been hidden away in dark budgets.

And I bet there is not a single Senator, probably not even the President, who knows with any accuracy what that total dark budget is.