Friday, Oct. 30, 2009

Intelligence spending rises again to $49.8 billion

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. spy agencies spent $49.8 billion in fiscal year 2009, $2 billion more than they spent in 2008.

National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair released the aggregate intelligence budget Friday. Congress in 2007 passed a law requiring that overall intelligence spending to be made public, as the 9/11 Commission had recommended.

The budget includes money spent by 16 different intelligence entities, from the CIA to the FBI, Pentagon to Homeland Security Department. Around 80 percent of the intelligence budget is consumed by the Pentagon intelligence. Item by item details of the budget, however, remain classified.

2009-10-30     14:22:08 GMT

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