Overall U.S. Intelligence Budgets Are Facing Billions In Cuts

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U.S. Intelligence Budget Faces 'Double Digit' Cuts: DNI Clapper -- Aol Defense

San Antonio: After a decade of enormous budget increases the American intelligence community's budget will probably decline by billions of dollars, Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper said here.

Clapper told more than 3,000 people at the annual Geoint conference that the intelligence community's budget had been handed in to the White House's Office of Management and Budget. "We are all going to have to give at the office," Clapper said. The bulk of the cuts will come from accounts labeled information technology, he said.

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My Comment: I have to see these cuts take place to believe it .... because for now .... I am deeply skeptical that such cuts will ever be implemented.