RawStory:Analyst slips up, leaks U.S. intel budget:$44 billion. Developing

Roland99

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Mon Nov-07-05 08:20 PM
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RawStory:Analyst slips up, leaks U.S. intel budget:$44 billion. Developing

Should be interesting!

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Ian David

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Mon Nov-07-05 08:22 PM
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1. Is it breaking hard and hugh? n/t

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The_Casual_Observer

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Mon Nov-07-05 08:23 PM
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2. I would like to sell some kind of product into THAT market!

I wonder what they are buying?

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htuttle

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Mon Nov-07-05 08:28 PM
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4. What are they buying?

They seem to be trying to buy several Latin American nations, a few Central Asian dictatorships, and a couple of emerging Eastern European democracies, to name a few.

Though you'd have to add in all the NED money and that of half a dozen other gov't departments to see the full expenditure.

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The_Casual_Observer

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Mon Nov-07-05 08:30 PM
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5. I was thinking along the lines of some copies of visicalc or something.

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SpiralHawk

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Mon Nov-07-05 08:27 PM
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3. Jeez, ya think BushCo could spare a few bucks to patch some potholes

Edited on Mon Nov-07-05 08:28 PM by SpiralHawk

The country's infrastructure is going to hell, and BushCo is frittering away our tax dollars on Nation Building, and phony intelligence which then morphs to propaganda.

Take a ride on I-40 and see the result of BushCo-Republican financial screw ups...bump, bump, bump

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Scout1071

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Mon Nov-07-05 10:43 PM
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6. For $44 Billion dollars, I want feckin' Osama bin Laden. n/t

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Marie26

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Mon Nov-07-05 10:56 PM
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7. How is this breaking news?

If you Google this, many articles have reported the annual intelligence budget as about $40 billion. In fact, the intelligence budget has been common knowledge since it was first declassified in 1997.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/22/opinion/main631316.shtml
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0303/031703cdam1.htm

So...why this story? And I love how they say it's "developing" - like they don't have all the info yet. They could have the info from a Google search, or from reading the annual budget. I know Raw Story is left-wing, but I have a hard time trusting them.

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Roland99

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Tue Nov-08-05 07:44 AM
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9. It was never posted as "breaking". And, read this article to learn more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/politics/08budget.html?ei=5088&en=2a24b4748fddeba6&ex=1289106000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

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upi402

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Mon Nov-07-05 10:56 PM
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8. Breaking wind, Whitehouse upwind, stinks as usual.

:nuke:

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