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Article: House Panel Approves a Record $48 Billion for Spy Agencies
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- May 4, 2007
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The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has
authorized U.S. intelligence agencies to spend an estimated $48
billion in fiscal 2008, the largest amount ever included in an
intelligence bill, thanks to inclusion of funding efforts associated
with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In approving the bill Monday evening, the panel's chairman, Rep.
Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), said, "The single largest intelligence
authorization bill ever written by the committee [is] evidence of
how important intelligence has become to our national security."
While the exact numbers in the measure are classified, intelligence
experts estimate it has grown nearly 4 percent annually in recent
years.
The ...