CIA, Out of Control
"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom." Charles Péguy
The Central Intelligence Agency appears to be out of control, answerable to no one from a practical standpoint and even its funding is "black," that is, hidden from all public disclosures. It's hard to make judgments about an agency so shrouded in mystery and held from public view, but like you, I have gut feelings.
As to their budget, the fact that it's black means it doesn't show up anywhere, not even as a bump on that huge mass of federal expenditure, if you try to deduct everything else and identify what's left. It makes me additionally uncomfortable to not know how much it's costing for them to not tell me what they're doing. Doesn't that make the hairs stand up just a bit on your neck?
So what would I ask, listing of funding by category? So much to infiltrate the PLO and so much to find out who the President of France is sleeping with? Obviously not, but I think it's in my interests to know whether the CIA is costing…