Le m\u00eame texte de Robert Dreyfuss sur le Pentagone que nous signalions pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment dans cette m\u00eame rubrique<\/a> mentionne l’augmentation consid\u00e9rable, \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur du budget g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale des USA, du budget affect\u00e9 au renseignement. (\u00abThen there are the intelligence and homeland security budgets. Back in the 1990s, when I started reporting on the CIA and the U.S. intelligence community, its entire budget was about $27 billion. Last year, although the number is supposed to be top secret, the Bush administration revealed that intelligence spending had reached $44 billion. For 2008, according to media reports, Congress is working on an authorization of $48 billion for our spies.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa chose nous a paru assez int\u00e9ressante pour \u00eatre signal\u00e9e \u00e0 part, \u00e0 partir d’un article du Washington Post<\/em> du 4 mai<\/a> auquel se r\u00e9f\u00e8re Dreyfuss.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIn 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe committee added to the Bush administration’s funding request for human intelligence activities by the CIA and the Defense Department. In addition, Reyes noted, we invest in language training for collectors and analysts and in language translation capabilities and add funding for sending additional analysts overseas.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n