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Trump sends Congress record high 'black budget' spy funding request
Washington Examiner ^ | Feb. 27, 2018

Posted on 02/27/2018 11:43:28 AM PST by deplorableindc

President Trump sent Congress the largest-ever publicly disclosed request for spy agency funding, the administration revealed Tuesday.

Details about the so-called “black budget” are slim, but Trump is requesting $59.9 billion for non-military intelligence agencies and $21.2 billion for military intelligence in fiscal 2019.

The civilian spy request is 3.8 percent higher than what Trump requested last year, and the military figure is 2.4 percent higher than last year’s request.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nsa; spying

1 posted on 02/27/2018 11:43:29 AM PST by deplorableindc
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To: deplorableindc

And in accordance with the Democrat MEMO from the House Intelligence committee, we are free to weaponize those agencies to spy on Democrats and do it with the bogus Fisa courts on made up smears paid for by taxpayer and political party money!! OUR TURN!!!


2 posted on 02/27/2018 11:47:54 AM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: deplorableindc

I suspect that these budgets for the past 8 years have been spent on matters that contribute more to internal political security for the Democrats than anything having todo with national security. President Trump may have significant catching up to do.


3 posted on 02/27/2018 11:54:38 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The government cannot protect you and isn't even trying. Self-defense is a right.)
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To: deplorableindc

And in which year was the ‘Black budget’ not a record over the previous year?


4 posted on 02/27/2018 11:56:53 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: deplorableindc

speaking of black helicopters

look at the orange dot at the mexi-cali border

storms moving it is not

https://radar.weather.gov/radar_lite.php?rid=yux&product=N0R&loop=yes


5 posted on 02/27/2018 12:06:08 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Yo-Yo

It decreased throughout the 1970s and mid-1990s and dipped slightly during several of Obama’s years

https://fas.org/irp/budget/index.html


6 posted on 02/27/2018 12:07:43 PM PST by deplorableindc
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To: KC Burke

? No comprendo


7 posted on 02/27/2018 12:13:21 PM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: DariusBane

For the last 20 minutes there has been a small orange dot type radar return on the Mexican border on weather radar. Orange = 35,000 feet as I recall. It is not moving with the other rain clouds shown in green.


8 posted on 02/27/2018 12:22:06 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: KC Burke

Hmm. Weird. Need one of the vets who worked radar tp comment.


9 posted on 02/27/2018 12:29:51 PM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: deplorableindc

Considering what the agencies have done with their money in the past I am not too enthusiastic about this. Black ops are inherently suspicious.


10 posted on 02/27/2018 1:06:51 PM PST by Don Corleone
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To: deplorableindc

Ugly. And I was hoping for him to defund and shut down these rogue agencies.


11 posted on 02/27/2018 1:33:43 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

Trump is an efficiency and security Republican, not so much a small-government small l libertarian Republican. We knew that going in.


12 posted on 02/27/2018 2:38:38 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: deplorableindc

We better have a hell of a Stargate out of all of this...just sayin.


13 posted on 02/27/2018 5:59:47 PM PST by Raymann
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