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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (536302)	2/5/2004 10:09:49 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Pro, I know for a fact that HUMINT faced budget cuts --- both in the '70s and in the '90s --- but certainly not the only times our Intelligence agencies have faced 'reforms'. I never claimed otherwise. But what I did say is that we (the public) have NO IDEA what the total Intelligence budgets are --- and that is a TRUE FACT... even the CIA's budgets from 50 years ago are still classified. (The CIA is in court right NOW fighting a case against historians who want access to the 50 year old budget.) NOTHING YOU HAVE POSTED --- OR CAN POST, BECAUSE OF THE CLASSIFICATIONS --- can answer the question of "have the Intelligence budgets been GOING UP, or have they ever gone down." (It is well know, for example, that in the '80s and '90s we devoted much more of the budgets to advanced technical means of gathering information, likely shifting some funding from HUMINT and or other areas in the process.) Pro, you are one tiring individual... you post things that you claim 'prove' the Intelligence budgets went down then get huffy when I --- very reasonably --- point out that your posted items actually say nothing of the kind. (What they say is that ONE FORM of Intelligence gathering received less funding --- while others received more, and the over-all budgets are UNKNOWN by the public.)