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Headlines : Intelligence
Summary:

They are proposing 41 billion for intelligence?

That could buy 1 (small 1$) cup of coffee for 10 million people for a whole year. Or some rice, if they were hungry and they would still have 5 billion, for umm.. needs.

Also notice “authorizing $446 million in an account that is to be the “principal source of funding” for Negroponte’s new team”

He just became the head of 15 agencies, but his new team needs $446 million.

What the hell are they building?

[Posted By scooter]
By By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer
Republished from The Washington Post Company
Legislation Covers All Human Intelligence

Tuesday, June 7, 2005; Page A04

The CIA would be given authority to coordinate all human intelligence activities overseas, including those carried out by Pentagon and FBI personnel, under legislation proposed by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the fiscal 2006 intelligence authorization bill.

At a time when the CIA appears to be losing its preeminence in clandestine operations abroad, the House panel suggested language in the bill that it said was designed to clarify roles of the CIA director and the new director of national intelligence (DNI) regarding the collection of human intelligence outside the United States “by any department, agency or element” of the U.S. government.

In the past, the CIA has exercised similar authority in most cases, but the House panel decided to try to put that into law as a result of increased overseas operations by many government agencies, and reports that several Pentagon teams had been found operating overseas without the knowledge of CIA officials.

Under the House committee proposal, CIA Director Porter J. Goss would develop a process for coordinating clandestine human intelligence activities overseas, but it would be “subject to the approval of the DNI,” John D. Negroponte, according to the panel’s report, made available…

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A Financial Markets employee When taking action, remember that without a strategey for AFTER, then ya'll just be pissin in the wind... I am also very apathetic.

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