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Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Por Noah Shachtman | El pentágono desea pasar justo sobre $50 mil millones en programas clasificados el año próximo, los documentos nuevo-lanzados del presupuesto del departamento de la defensa revela. “Que es la suma más grande-siempre,” según la cuenta Sweetman, un adivino de largo plazo del negro-presupuesto - total de la semana de la aviación de los tres de los por ciento años pasados excesivos del aumento. It makes the Pentagon’s secret operations, including the intelligence budgets nested inside, “roughly equal in magnitude to the entire defense budgets of the UK, France or Japan,” Sweetman adds. All in all, about seven and a half percent of the Defense Department’s total spending is now classified. restos arma-que compra del Negro-mundo “dominado por la sola línea artículo,” según Sweetman. (You can find it under the Air Force’s “other procurement” section, on page F-21 here.) “This year’s number stands just above $16 billion. En términos inflación-ajustados, ése es 240 por ciento más que era hace diez años.” Many of the secret budgets still remain clandestine, however. In the research budget, the line item for a “Special Program”of the super-secret National Security Agency is a string of zeros. Same goes for an NSA “Cyber Security Initiative” kitty. E incluso no pregunte por cuenta de las operaciones de la información de los NSA “ayuda de la inteligencia”. Eso es una pizarra en blanco, también. Some other fun facts, buried in the Pentagon’s just-released budget docs: Money for “Directed Energy Technology” — real-life ray gun research — jumps from $62.7 million last year to $105.7 million in 2010. The mostly classified plan would include new, redesigned “electro-optical” satellites, which collect data from across the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as the expanded use of commercial satellite imagery. Although the cost is secret, most estimates place it in the multibillion-dollar range. Have Your Say: Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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