For the first time, the Director of National Intelligence disclosed the budget request for the coming year’s budget. For 2012, the amount requested is $55 billion. The call for transparency has had a long history of contentious debate and litigation with the government arguing that revealing the budget could hurt national security and compromise intelligence [...]
Greater transparency to federal spending on intelligence
Secrecy News’ Steven Aftergood says the Obama administration has abandoned tired old arguments against disclosure in revealing the total intelligence budget for 2010. -db Secrecy News Commentary November 1, 2010 By Steven Aftergood With last week’s disclosure of the total intelligence budget for 2010, including budget figures for the National Intelligence Program ($53.1 billion) and [...]
