U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary

Washington Post ^ | August 29, 2013 | Barton Gellman and Greg Miller

[RedMDer]

Less than $3.1k to go!!
Let’s git ‘er done!!

[unixfox]

THE NSA IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE!

F U B O !

[Tainan]

U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget.

Simple quick answer...95% of CIA personnel work inside the U.S.A.

[Cindy]

20committee.com: "SNOWDEN, NSA, AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE" (SNIPPET: "Even President Vladimir Putin has conceded that Ed's contacts with Russian officials did not commence when he landed at Sheremtyevo airport, rather before. But when? That of course is the key question that NSA counterintelligence surely wants -- needs -- to know, All roads here lead to Wikileaks.") (September 4, 2013) (Read More…)

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[Grampa Dave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3064092/posts

Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
The Washington Post ^ | Ellen Nakashima

Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2013 6:59:34 AM by originalbuckeye

The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.

In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

[Seizethecarp]

Thanks for the ping!

The anti-war Dems are now on to what a big liar Barry is and how surveillance state fascism threatens the left as well as the right!