In the debate over the National Intelligence Director, news stories often report that the Secretary of Defense “currently controls up to 80 percent of the estimated 40-billion-dollar intelligence budget.” This estimate is either asserted, phrased in the passive voice or attributed to unnamed “experts.” So, where does the estimate come from? The 80 percent part …
Comments
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I am thinking over the whole “comments” policy. Comments on the topic of comments are welcome.
Richelson on MISTY
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The National Security Archive has posted the passage about MISTY from Jeffrey Richelson’s The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology, (Boulder: Westview Press, 2002).
The Job Is A Real Downer
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AFP has a remarkable file photograph of Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, listening to Mohamed ElBaradei, at a press conference last month—during the period Washington was attempting to enlist him to challenge ElBaradei for the IAEA’s top job. Downer’s face pretty much tells you what Australian Prime Minister John Howard told reporters today: Downer isn’t …
