Walter Pincus-2007 Spying Said to Cost $50 Billion

[kpete]

2007 Spying Said to Cost $50 Billion
Some Formerly Classified Figures Are to Be Disclosed Today

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 30, 2007; A04



The director of national intelligence will disclose today that national intelligence activities amounting to roughly 80 percent of all U.S. intelligence spending for the year cost more than $40 billion, according to sources on Capitol Hill and inside the administration.

The disclosure means that when military spending is added, aggregate U.S. intelligence spending for fiscal 2007 exceeded $50 billion, according to these sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the total remains classified.

Adm. Mike McConnell will announce that the fiscal 2007 national intelligence program figure, classified up to now, is being made public at the urging of the Sept. 11 commission and the insistence of Congress, which turned the commission's recommendation into law. The commission's plan was to have the president make the figure public each year.

While the budget figure released by McConnell excludes intelligence programs for the separate military services, it includes the budgets of the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the FBI's intelligence programs, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the major Defense Department intelligence collection agencies.

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/29/AR2007102902062_pf.html

[papau]

1. All of the US intel operation, including military, is in the $40 billion - so what

military spending is added to get to $50 billion.

An interesting post as it implies that someone (Cheney?) has a spare $10 billion to field their own intel operation outside of the operations under the control of our national intel structure.