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Government: Nation's Spies Got $43.5 Billion in 2007
blog.wired.com — The nation's spy bureaucracies, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, received $43.5 billion in taxpayer money in 2007, the Director of National Intelligence reluctantly announced Tuesday.
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- iching, on 11/01/2007, -0/+4And US citizens continue to pay to have illegal wiretaps and privacy invasions done on themselves
- crazybugger, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1The Breach!
- polymath22, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2With such a large budget, you would think they could have done a better job of protecting the USA on 9-11, and you would also think that they would have no trouble bringing the Anthrax mailers to justice....
Furthermore, if we believe the Bush Administration, our intelligence community is ***** worthless, because they provided us with the faulty intelligence that led us into a quagmire in Iraq. (one could argue that the bush administration had good intelligence, but cherry picked it for their own war-mongering agenda, but that may be a stretch. /s)
the bottom line is that our "intelligence" is way too expensive, way too invasive, way too over-reaching, and obviously NOT WORKING to provide a valuable service to American citizens.
disband these organizations and cut my taxes proportionately.
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