Not Much of a Return on Investment
2007 Spying Said to Cost $50 Billion
Some Formerly Classified Figures Are to Be Disclosed Today
Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 30, 2007; Page A04
The director of national intelligence will disclose today that national intelligence activities amounting to roughly 80 percent of all U.S. intelligence spending for the year cost more than $40 billion, according to sources on Capitol Hill and inside the administration.
The disclosure means that when military spending is added, aggregate U.S. intelligence spending for fiscal 2007 exceeded $50 billion, according to these sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the total remains classified.
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If that's "shrinking government until it's small enough to drown in the bathtub," as Grover Norquist would have it, he'd better get a bigger bathtub.
$100,000.00 a minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a week--$6 million an hour and what do we have to …