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marions ghost

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8. "The Black Budget" is no longer a vague secret

Tue Sep 10, 2013, 11:37 AM

Sep 2013

Thank you Ed Snowden.

Four main spending categories:

Top secret spending can be divided into four main categories: data collection, data analysis, management, facilities and support and data processing and exploitation.

The CIA and NRO are heavy on data collection while the NSA and NGP focus on data processing and exploitation as well as auxiliary functions like management, facilities and support.

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I hope people heard the shoe dropping...it's all about being data mined and spied on at our own expense.

Will Americans really put up with this?

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"NSA paying companies for access to communications networks" --WAPO [View all] marions ghost Aug 2013 OP

All that MIC coin to spread around, Thugs of the 1% . orpupilofnature57 Aug 2013 #1

Corporate welfare or bribe to gain complicity in an illegal action. Pholus Aug 2013 #2

I surmised in 2007 that this has been the case for a long time. leveymg Aug 2013 #3

Karl Marx said... Jerry442 Sep 2013 #4

K&R + some not so random related links for consideration bobthedrummer Sep 2013 #5

Thanks for those links marions ghost Sep 2013 #7

Thanks for starting this thread-here's some more links as we wait for the CinC's speech bobthedrummer Sep 2013 #10

Finally...This was the other shoe I was expecting to drop... Blue_Tires Sep 2013 #6

"The Black Budget" is no longer a vague secret marions ghost Sep 2013 #8

Of course the million-dollar question no one wants to discuss (DU included) is Blue_Tires Sep 2013 #9

People are overwhelmed marions ghost Sep 2013 #11