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2024-11-02 -Land of the Free

Pentagon releases $29.8 billion cost of secret military intelligence budget

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-11-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11146 views ] Top

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Also, likely in part, a way to hide DC Swamp pocket $$$$.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-11-02 05:17|| 2024-11-02 05:17|| Front Page Top

#2 After 9/11 our military found that the IC was useless as a source of info during military ops in c.f. Iraq. So they ramped up their own program, with GEN Flynn taking the lead and facing the fury of the Beltway. Thiel's Palantir helped them enormously, again working around a massively costly, late, and ponderous Army info system that embedded top down control of analyses.

Hence this budget vs that of the DNI.

Posted by Omoluger Ulising2352 2024-11-02 08:23|| 2024-11-02 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Visited lovely Reston, VA. did you ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-11-02 08:25|| 2024-11-02 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Spoken like an old school alumni B, my era skill set was peaked in the time of grease pencils, paper maps, acetate drops, tacks and thread!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-11-02 16:41|| 2024-11-02 16:41|| Front Page Top

#5 ....with GEN Flynn taking the lead and facing the fury of the Beltway.

Yes, they hated Flynn and thouht not much better of Alexander and Zippy. Distributed Common Ground System Army (DCGS-A) was a costly contractor dependent abortion.

I'll stop short of calling Palantir an analytical penicillin, but the young troops certainly thought highly of it, and where is the proprietary POS DCGS-A today? Spit.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-11-02 16:52|| 2024-11-02 16:52|| Front Page Top

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