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If This Is “Transparency” – We’d Hate To Know What Secrecy Looks Like
Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food.
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 02/14/2016 – 12:15
Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org,
In the spirit of the transparency — of which the Obama administration claims to be a champion— there will be no details regarding the allocation of non-military intelligence spending in the president’s final budget request to Congress.
According to a press release from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), fiscal year 2017’s budget totals $53.5 billion, but don’t ask which agencies or programs will receive the funds —“because such disclosures could harm national security.”
Indubitably.
Of course, the ODNI congratulated the self-titled most transparent administration in history for its laudatory lucidity, anyway.
“Reflecting the Administration’s commitment to transparency and open government, this Budget continues the practice begun in 2012 of disclosing the President’s aggregate funding requests for the [National Intelligence Program],” stated an ODNI fact sheet.
Considering such disclosures became a requirement under the law in 2010, that pat on the back seems superfluous, if not smug.
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Thanks to BrotherJohnF
Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2016/02/14/if-this-is-transparency-wed-hate-to-know-what-secrecy-looks-like-2/
