AMERICA'S SECRET "BLACK BUDGET"

FROM THE WASHINGTON POST,

"The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former ­intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how it uses the money or how it performs against the goals set by the president and Congress.  

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. wrote in response to inquiries from The Post.
“Our budgets are classified as they could provide insight for foreign intelligence services to discern our top national priorities, capabilities and sources and methods that allow us to obtain information to counter threats,” he said.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT OTHERS HAVE STATED THE "BLACK BUDGET" HAS EXCEEDED $1 TRILLION PER YEAR!

COULD THAT BE WHERE THE MISSING PENTAGON FUNDS WENT THAT RUMSFELD WAS SO INTENT ON FINDING THE DAY BEFORE 9/11? 

IS THAT WHERE MUCH OF THE PENTAGON'S "BIG MONEY" GOES?

WE KNOW ABOUT $52+ BILLION, BUT WHAT WE DON'T KNOW WOULD FILL AN OCEAN. 

FROM 1997, THIS ARTICLE:
"IN WHAT REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST significant yet elusive developments in this era of deficit reduction and budget slashing, top-secret phantoms have emerged from the rubble of the Cold War to perpetuate an impenetrable, unaccountable and mystifying $30 billion shroud: the Pentagon's black budget.

This budget, both a cover for vital national secrets and a wasteful proving ground for theoretical world wars, conceals hundreds of programs, many of which propel the economic engines of Silicon Valley.  

The black budget operates without constitutional authority or broad congressional oversight and is a hive of absurdly speculative and astonishingly expensive hallucinations, including the notion of "winning" a full-tilt, six-month nuclear war synchronized by a satellite network that charts the progress of the apocalypse. 

"The immediate problem with secret budgets is that you lose a great degree of oversight and accountability," says Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists. 
"In the best of cases you end up wasting money. In the worst of cases you have abuses of power."

Similar concerns inspired Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, which states, "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time."   

"If you look back to the 1950s and 1960s, the only programs which were 'black' were those that dealt with reconnaissance," Sweetman says. 
"With the stealth [aircraft] programs in the 1970s, you started to see the 'black' world overlapping more with the world of regular military operations."  

THE ABOVE IS A VERY INFORMATIVE ARTICLE. I HOPE YOU FIND THE TIME TO READ ALL OF IT. 

FROM 1995: 
"The black budget is the government's illusory and tangled accounting of what it spends on intelligence gathering, covert operations, and - less noticeably - secret military research and weapons programs. 

Documented - vaguely - in funding requests and authorizations voted on by select committees of the US Congress, the black budget is published with omitted dollar amounts and blacked-out passages.

 It hides all sorts of strange projects, not just from enemies, foreign and domestic, but from the public and elected officials as well. 
Last year, for instance, it was revealed that the National Reconnaissance Office had for several years used the black budget to hide from Congress the cost and ownership of a $300 million office building, even though the structure was plainly visible from Route 28 west of Washington, DC.  

Blank Check: 
'The Pentagon's Black Budget', was a 1990 book by reporter Tim Weiner. 
 Now at The New York Times, Weiner covered the CIA's Aldrich Ames scandal and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for his exposé of black budget programs for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

In 'Blank Check', Weiner argued that the black budget represented an entire culture of deception - "the realm of nukes and spooks," he called it.

Take a program such as element number 207248F. 
The program behind the number was called STUDS, for "special tactical unit detachments." 
It is hard to believe that any overtones of this acronym are other than intentional.

In one year this program went from $885,000 to $20 million. 
Budget readers know from the program number that STUDS is operational - not just a research project but a working unit, that it is tactical (rather than strategic), and that it is Air Force.

President Clinton issued a long-awaited executive order on secrecy reform. 
The order will declassify hundreds of millions of pages of Cold War documents. 

Under the new policy, most current secret documents will be automatically declassified after 25 years, and classification from now on will automatically expire after a decade - approximately the same length of time that has passed since government officials began drafting the new order.  

There are loopholes, however, that will keep many sensitive documents under lock and key, including those relating to the president and to foreign government involvement. 
And it will be the unenviable task of something called the Information Security Oversight Office to handle the laborious duty of declassification.

IT ISN'T JUST THE PENTAGON...WALL STREET GETS IN ON THE 'BLACK BUDGET' DEALS!

THIS NEWS APPEARED 4 YEARS BEFORE THE BIG HOUSING BUBBLE BURST AND TOOK OUT OUR ECONOMY IN 2008!

America's Black Budget & the
Manipulation of Mortgage & FinancialMarkets

THE FOLLOWING IS FROM AN INTERVIEW IN 2004 WITH  Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing, president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of 'The Solari Report', managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC., and managing member of Sea Lane Advisory Services, LLC.

"Investors benefit from understanding the federal budget, credit policies and covert intervention that drive markets -- often overriding fundamental economics. 

How has the US governmental apparatus become so powerful in the marketplace and what does it mean to the health of our economy? 
How unstable is the mortgage bubble and where are the opportunities for investors if the bubble bursts?

[THE BUBBLE DID BURST! AND OUR ECONOMY HASN'T RECOVERED FROM THAT YET!] 

When I became Assistant Secretary of Housing, I left Wall St. and went to Washington in 1989, and I walked into the FHA, which at the time was a $300 billion portfolio of mortgage insurance, about 80% of that was single family.

I said, “How much are we making or losing in the single family fund?”
And they said, “We’re losing $11 million a day.”

...so I said, “Well we have 10 regions and 80 field offices, where are we making or losing money?”
And they said, “We don’t know that.” 

 ...they always need more money, but they can’t account for where the money that they have goes.  

In fact, in 2001 we did an estimate, and it turned out that 85% of the first Bush administration budget [was] going to agencies that weren’t in compliance with the audited financial statements rules and reliable financial systems.

...there were reports of not only failure to produced audited financial statements, but about $3.4 trillion of undocumentable adjustments. Very, very significant. That works out to about $11,000 per American resident. 

Now, when people say to me “What is $3.3 trillion of undocumentable adjustments?”, let me give you an example.
In fiscal 2000, the Department of Defense had $2.3 trillion in undocumentable adjustments.
OK now, there’s no way for us to know how much of that translates into cash.
Because $2.3 trillion is more than total taxes paid in a year by … say tax payers in that year would have paid taxes of about $1.6 trillion. So, there’s no way to know if $2.3 trillion translates into how much cash, or how much cash is missing.

Now when the fellow came to see me, I thought he was crazy because what he was saying was that the U.S. Treasury and the FHA were engaged in significant securities fraud.
In other words, what he was saying was that there was a significant amount of FHA & Ginnie Mae (or FHA related) securities outstanding than was shown in the financial statements. 

What has been evidenced over the last 7 years, is that there is a pattern that suggests there is very significant financial fraud in the mortgage markets.
We’ve had a complete implosion of internal financial controls in the governmental apparatus. $3.3 trillion missing from government is a financial coup-d’etat.

You can keep a bubble going as long as you can finance it. And my guess is, again very much credited to Bill Murphy, what we’re watching is a securities operation both with the Federal agencies, the mortgage agencies, and the U.S. Treasury, which are financing a political economy.

The money that comes in from those debt operations are being used for other than their lawful purposes."

$40 TRILLION MISSING!

ANOTHER 2004 ARTICLE

"For the past several decades, there have been an unbroken chain of government scandals involving over-billing and multiple-invoicing for items ranging from toilet seats to bombers. Inevitably the media portray these scandals as unscrupulous corporations taking advantage of an inept government bureaucracy.

 

Sadly these incidents are more pervasive than media reporting indicates, and the truth is far more ominous than mere government incompetence or corporate greed. 

When the clandestine diversion of tax revenue was no longer sufficient to satisfy the requirements [OF COVERT OPERATIONS], a second method was instituted. 

American jobs were outsourced to other countries, thereby allowing the government to repatriate nearly 100% of product and/or service revenue through the foreign purchase of American government bonds.

 

Since the early 1960s, the American citizenry have been the unwitting victims of government fraud, perpetrated on a scale so vast that it staggers the imagination. 

 When figured in 2004 dollars, the total amount exceeds 40 trillion dollars.

January 29, 2002
Defense Department Cannot Account For 25% of Funds - $2.3 Trillion
CBS NEWS

"To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.

"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheets.

 

Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records.

"The director looked at me and said 'Why do you care about this stuff?' It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job," said Minnery.

He was reassigned and says officials then covered up the problem by just writing it off.

"They have to cover it up," he said. "That's where the corruption comes in. They have to cover up the fact that they can't do the job."

The Pentagon's Inspector General "partially substantiated" several of Minnery's allegations but could not prove officials tried "to manipulate the financial statements."

Twenty years ago, Department of Defense Analyst Franklin C. Spinney made headlines exposing what he calls the 'accounting games'."

SEPT. 10, 2005
<In the U.S. you only have 3 types of classification: 
Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret. 
That's it. 
 But this doesn't matter, since the true power of the classification system is the famous 'need to know' policy. 
Just because you have a Top Secret clearance doesn't mean you can gain access to all the different Top Secret documents of the CIA, Army, Navy, and Air Force.
However, this 3-tiered classification system is not enough to protect some of the more sensitive information. 
Therefore additional levels of compartmentalization have been created. 

After a very intensive background check, someone with a Top Secret clearance might obtain an additional Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance, under which information is buried that needs to be restricted to even fewer individuals. 
This TS-SCI clearance had been introduced mainly to stop some higher ranking officers from looking into Top Secret files they don't have any business with.

But even the TS-SCI clearance doesn't provide the secrecy needed for some of the most sensitive projects. 
This is the reason that Special Access Programs (SAP) are created all the time. 

In this case only a predetermined list of authorized personnel has access to the project and additional security measures can be taken to keep outsiders away from it. 
Different congressional committees are informed about these SAPs, but there is very little time for questions.

Most SAPs start out as Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (USAP), better known as Black Projects. 
The F-117A Nighthawk and the B-2 Spirit are examples of projects that started out as Unacknowledged SAPs.

 

A DOD manual describes a USAP as follows :

"Unacknowledged SAPs require a significantly greater degree of protection than acknowledged SAPs... A SAP with protective controls that ensures the existence of the Program is not acknowledged, affirmed, or made known to any person not authorized for such information. All aspects (e.g., technical, operational, logistical, etc.) are handled in an unacknowledged manner."

"Additional security requirements to protect these special access programs can range from mere upgrades of the collateral system’s requirements (such as rosters specifying who is to have access to the information) to entire facilities being equipped with added physical security measures or elaborate and expensive cover, concealment, deception, and operational security plans.">

Eisenhower created DARPA (then simply Advanced Research Projects Agency - ARPA) in 1958 "for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements."

HOW MUCH MONEY DOES DARPA GET AND WHAT FOR?
WE MAY NEVER KNOW.

DARPA is organized under the Pentagon, which is organized under the Dept, of Defense, which is an agency of the executive branch, which means the White House, which refers to the President, where the buck stops.

 So that’s the chain of command.

Here is a key quote from one  of the 'darkest' DARPA proposals:CHANGING THE STRUCTURE OF HUMAN DNA 

“…the successful development of technologies for rapid introduction of large DNA vectors into human cell lines will enable the ability to engineer much more complex functionalities into human cell lines than are currently possible.”

DARPA plans to insert a 47^th chromosome into human cell lines. 
That chromosome will serve as a kind of platform that will make subsequent delivery of new genetic information much easier.

New genetic information means alterations in the body, at the level of DNA: Engineering humans.

DARPA will justify these experiments on the basis of improving soldiers’ performance on the battlefield, their general health, their capacity to recover from illness, injury, exhaustion.

 

They can justify it any way they want to, but it adds up to the same thing.

“We will change you. We will make you better. And, ahem, uh, easier to control.”

But this isn’t a debate about how a human could be made better or what “better” should mean or who should decide. 
It’s an argument that the whole program is a violation of the Constitution - because if we don’t stand on that, we don’t stand on anything."

AND WE, THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS, ARE PAYING FOR ALL THESE "BLACK PROGRAMS", THIS "BLACK BUDGET" IS COMING OUT OF OUR POCKETS.
HOW MANY PROGRAMS?
THAT'S CLASSIFIED...

HOW MUCH MONEY?
THAT'S CLASSIFIED...

FOR HOW LONG?
SINCE AT LEAST 1918...

REMEMBER THE  1918 'SPANISH FLU PANDEMIC'?

GO SEE HOW THAT WAS IMPLEMENTED!TRY FORT DIX...