re: #12 dragonath

Intelligence is by nature an opaque outfit, but surely there is some redundancy between the various agencies.

They sure do manage to suck up a lot of money, about $225 billion of the “black” defense budget for “security,” that is not part of the regular $676 billion defense budget, just for this year. That is on top of all the other agencies that have their own budgets for “security,” we are spending way too much on this.

Do police departments across the country really need drones and armored vehicles paid for by Homeland security? Sure I want the government to try to keep us safe us much as the next guy but this has gotten ridiculous. Where is the oversight? Where is the accountability? They have gotten anything they asked for since 9/11 with barely a question being raised, it is past time to start reigning these guys in a little.