The black budget: full transcription
// Why This Isn't An Outlier
This document isn't an isolated case. It's the same institutional habit the record shows repeating for eighty years.
Build the capability quietly. Use it at a scale the public never approved. Account for it only once a court forces the paperwork into daylight. The Classified Record traces that exact pattern from a 1946 screening memo to the 3.4 million warrantless searches the FBI ran in a single year, using the government's own documents, not speculation.
Get the book on Amazon →The $52.6 billion black budget for fiscal 2013 maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny.
The CIA requested 14.7 billion dollars for 2013, more than the National Security Agency's 10.8 billion, and the National Reconnaissance Office received almost as much as the NSA, at 10.3 billion.
The NSA and CIA have launched aggressive new efforts to hack into foreign computer networks to steal information or sabotage enemy systems, embracing what the budget refers to as offensive cyber operations.
The raid was guided from space by a fleet of satellites which aimed dozens of separate receivers over Pakistan to collect a torrent of electronic and signals intelligence as the mission unfolded.
Blind spots the agencies wish they had more information about are acknowledged in the budget, including Pakistan's nuclear program, what China's next generation fighter aircraft are capable of, and how Russian authorities are likely to respond in the event of a terrorist attack.
This transcription covers the budget's core scale, agency breakdown, the offensive cyber operations disclosure, the bin Laden raid detail, and the acknowledged intelligence gaps. The Washington Post withheld additional portions of the original 178-page document after consultation with officials regarding sensitive sources and methods.
Document: U.S. Intelligence Community, Fiscal Year 2013 Congressional Budget Justification. Published August 29, 2013.
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