In your face irony. Gotta love it.
I must adamit - I have not heard of the NRO. I wiki’d it. Small Agency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office
3,000 employees. $10 Billion budget.
My son worked there over the summer as an intern from West Point. He like it, but couldn’t tell us any details or he would have had to kill us.
When he called home during the stint I always asked him “if he was having fun trampling on our 4th amendment rights.” He chuckled but never responded.
For years until recently, the NRO denied its existence or where any of their buildings were.
Only in the USA is a 3,000 member agency with a $10 billion dollar budget (which number is horsesh*t, by the way) considered “small.” There are countries that have much smaller budgets and armies.