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A first: Size of budget for National Intelligence Program revealed

donal brown February 15, 2011

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 methods. From a commentary in Secrecy News, February 15, 2011, by Steven Aftergood. Full Story

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Greater transparency to federal spending on intelligence

donal brown November 2, 2010

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 the Military Intelligence Program ($27 billion), the Obama Administration has provided a new degree of transparency on intelligence spending. The

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