Black Project Budget Expanding

What a surprise? Black Projects have forever secured the lions share of the national budget, but the newest expansion of the Black Budget has nothing to do with stealth aircraft, star wars, or even the war on terrorism... It is MUCH MORE geared towards the war against your personal freedoms and privacy!

Classified Spending On the Rise
Report: Defense to Get $23.2 Billion

By Dan Morgan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 27, 2003; Page A23


"Black," or classified, programs requested in President Bush's 2004 defense budget are at the highest level since 1988, according to a report prepared by the independent Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

The center concluded that classified spending next fiscal year will reach about $23.2 billion of the Pentagon's total request for procurement and research funding. When adjusted for inflation, that is the largest dollar figure since the peak reached during President Ronald Reagan's defense buildup 16 years ago. The amount in 1988 was $19.7 billion, or $26.7 billion if adjusted for inflation, according to the center.

"It's puzzling. It sets the mind to wondering where the money's going and what sort of politically controversial things the administration is doing because they're not telling anybody," said John E. Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a research group in Alexandria that has been critical of the administration's defense priorities.

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Doesn't surprise me at all. One wonders if Congress will ever regain control over the purse... as was the point of the Revolutionary war, Magna Carta, etc, etc...