Congress secretly boosted U.S. spy agency funding last year, pushing intelligence budgets to their highest publicly known level and raising questions about the reason for the surge.
Non-military spy agency budgets soared nearly 9 percent to $59.4 billion in fiscal 2018, and military intelligence funding grew more than 20 percent to $22.1 billion.
Overall intelligence spending increased more than 10 percent to $81.5 billion, according to the figures released Tuesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Defense Department, a month after the fiscal year ended.
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Update: US intel budget soars under Trump (AFP)
WNU Editor: Why the huge increase now?
"Sorry. We are not allowed to talk about this."
ReplyDeleteProbably to fund some more witch hunts ;-)
ReplyDeleteBut my guess is China.. there's several major fronts now: Iran, North Korea, Russia, China - while they have been all there before, Trump takes them a bit more seriously and is not leading "from behind". Also, my guess is some of the cash goes to advanced computing for decryption, traffic analysis etc
I would assume its to combat the espionage conducted by Russian and China. While I supported Obama, I don't think he did enough in stemming Chinese espionage, so hopefully this increase by Trump will help with that situation.
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