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From: The Washington Times | October 31, 2009
INTELLIGENCE Intelligence spending rises by billions U.S. spy agencies spent $49.8 billion in fiscal year 2009, $2 billion more than in 2008 and the second such multibillion-dollar increase in as many years. National Intelligence Director Dennis C. Blair released the aggregate intelligence budget Friday. Congress in 2007 passed a law requiring that overall intelligence spending 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, the Pentagon to the Homeland Security Department. Around 80 percent of the intelligence budget is consumed by the Pentagon intelligence …
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