‘Black budget’ summary details U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives

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‘Black budget’ summary details U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives - The Washington Post
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html

The 178-page budget summary for the National Intelligence Program details the successes, failures and objectives of the 16 spy agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, which has 107,035 employees.

The summary describes cutting-edge technologies, agent recruiting and ongoing operations. The Post is withholding some information after consultation with U.S. officials who expressed concerns about the risk to intelligence sources and methods. Sensitive details are so pervasive in the documents that The Post is publishing only summary tables and charts online.

#espionnage

Le lien vers le résumé ▻http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/781537/cbjb-fy13-v1-extract.pdf

Avec, p. ex., le nombre de civils touchant une prime pour leur compétence dans une langue étrangère.

http://i.imgur.com/NKX3zdG.jpg

#chiffres #surveillance #services_secrets

In 2011, the budget assessment says intelligence agencies made at least “moderate progress” on 38 of their 50 top counterterrorism gaps, the term used to describe blind spots. Several concern Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, an enemy of Israel that has not attacked U.S. interests directly since the 1990s .

En matière de contre-espionnage étasunien, Israël fait partie, avec la Chine, la Russie, l’Iran et Cuba, des pays les plus surveillés.

counterintelligence operations “are strategically focused against [the] priority targets of China, Russia, Iran, Cuba and Israel.”

La CIA, en tête, reçoit plus de fonds que la NSA, parce que (para) militarisée.

Spending by the CIA has surged past that of every other spy agency, with $14.7 billion in requested funding for 2013. The figure vastly exceeds outside estimates and is nearly 50 percent above that of the National Security Agency, which conducts eavesdropping operations and has long been considered the behemoth of the community.

The surge in resources for the agency funded secret prisons, a controversial interrogation program, the deployment of lethal drones and a huge expansion of its counterterrorism center. The agency was transformed from a spy service struggling to emerge from the Cold War into a paramilitary force.

Infographie : ►http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget

’Black budget’ shows top spies are still obsessed with debunked ’radicalization’ theories | Privacy SOS
▻http://www.privacysos.org/node/1166

I’ll have a lot more to say about Barton Gellman and Greg Miller’s story on the ‘intelligence community’ ‘black budget’, but for now I want to point out something very distressing. 

Unfortunately, the top spies still think that formulating some kind of ’path to radicalization’ chart is what will help them stop terrorists from attacking the United States.

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The Washington Post ’black budget’ report shows us that the ’radicalization’ story will not die at the top levels of the US government. That’s really too bad, because it leads the police and feds in tragic policy directions that have devastating consequences for real people, and for our society. Just ask Linda Sarsour how it’s working out for her and other Muslim New Yorkers.

#espionnage #surveillance #services_secrets #snowden #nsa #cia etc.