Article: Bill for intelligence agencies $43.5 billion.(NATION)

Byline: Sean Coit, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The annual budget figure for U.S. intelligence programs was released for the first time in almost a decade yesterday, the result of one of the recommendations of the September 11 commission.

According to Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, the fiscal 2007 budget figure for nonmilitary intelligence programs over the 16 agencies he oversees added up to $43.5 billion. Military intelligence spending remains classified, as nonmilitary spending had been since 1999, but is widely believed to total roughly $10 billion.

Acting in accordance with the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, the ...

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