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Post by clone on Nov 1, 2010 10:33:42 GMT -8
A New Milestone in Intelligence Budget Disclosure November 1st, 2010 With last week’s disclosure of the total intelligence budget for 2010, including budget figures for the National Intelligence Program ($53.1 billion) and the Military Intelligence Program ($27 billion), the Obama Administration has provided a new degree of transparency on intelligence spending. The National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget total has previously been disclosed each year since 2007, when Congress mandated its disclosure as part of the implementation of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. But despite its name, the NIP is only a part of the U.S. intelligence system, which also includes the Military Intelligence Program (MIP). Disclosure of the MIP budget, and thus of the total level of intelligence spending, was not required by Congress. So why was it done? Amazingly, what happened is that the U.S. government essentially adopted the position advanced by critics of budget secrecy for the last four decades or so. www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2010/11/new_milestone.html
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Post by pg mackay on Jul 13, 2014 18:48:59 GMT -8
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Post by guest on Jan 20, 2016 17:11:04 GMT -8
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