Overall U.S. Intelligence Budget: $80.1 Billion

October 29th, 2010

Does the number include all of the special access programs?

Via: Los Angeles Times:

The U.S. government on Thursday disclosed for the first time in more than a decade what it spent in total on intelligence gathering in the fiscal year that just ended: $80.1 billion.

That’s more than the U.S. spent on the Department of Homeland Security ($53 billion) and the Justice Department ($30 billion), according to figures from the White House Office of Management and Budget. It represents about 12% of the nation’s $664-billion defense budget.

The total intelligence budget has doubled since 2001, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in a statement.

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2 Responses to “Overall U.S. Intelligence Budget: $80.1 Billion”

  1. rotger says:
    October 30, 2010 at 4:38 am

    I bet it doesn’t include the billions from the Afghanistan drug industry.

  2. Eileen says:
    November 1, 2010 at 5:14 am

    Let me cough and clear my throat before I write, that this is so effing, effing ridiculous. $80 billion, for what? Keeping a bunch of numb nuts on the government dole? Yes, that includes you, the spy, paid to spy on everything people write on this site.
    Clean up your resumes,spooks, your day of reckoning will be coming anon.
    I’m listening to Cold Play tonight, thinking you spies should listen: I want to live life never being cruel: and live my life and have friends around. I want to live life and always be true.
    Get it?

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