Tr\u00e8s r\u00e9cemment encore, nous donnions les plus r\u00e9centes estimations du budget du renseignement aux USA (les 16 agences concern\u00e9es), qui atteindrait $48 milliards<\/a> pour 2008. Certains ne sont pas d’accord, et m\u00eame ils nous signalaient le moyen d’aller v\u00e9rifier la justesse de ce d\u00e9saccord sur des sites officiels o\u00f9 se sont gliss\u00e9s dans la s\u00e9lection des documents mis en ligne.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tSur son site romantiquement nomm\u00e9 thespywhobilledme.com<\/a>, l’universitaire R J Hillhouse d\u00e9taille, le 3 juin (par l’interm\u00e9diaire de RAW Story<\/a>) la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 du budget du renseignement US gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 des documents mis en ligne par erreur par la DIA. (Le courrier accompagnant l’article signale que ces documents ont disparu du site de la DIA le 4 juin). Il en r\u00e9sulte que ce n’est pas $48 milliards qu’il faut lire pour le budget des 16 agences de renseignement pour 2008, mais $60 milliards.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abOffice of the Director of National Intelligence, the highest intelligence agency in the country that oversees all federal intelligence agencies, appears to have inadvertently released the keys to that number in an unclassified PowerPoint presentation now posted on the website of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). By reverse engineering the numbers in an underlying data element embedded in the presentation, it seems that the total budget of the 16 US intelligence agencies in fiscal year 2005 was $60 billion, almost 25% higher than previously believed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIn the presentation originally made to a DIA conference in Colorado on May 14, Terri Everett, an Office of the Director of National Intelligence senior procurement executive, revealed that 70% of the total Intelligence Community budget is spent on contractors. (This was reported by Tim Shorrock on Salon.com.) Everett also included a slide depicting the trend of award dollars to contractors by the Intelligence Community from fiscal year 95 through a partial year of fiscal year 06 (i.e. through August 31st of FY06.) Because these figures are classified, a scale of the total number of award dollars was omitted from the Y-axis of the bar chart. The PowerPoint presentation was first obtained by Shorrock for Salon.com and it was later posted on the DIA’s website where I downloaded it. Although it would not have been visible to the conference attendees, the data underlying the bar graph–the total amount of Intelligence Community funds spent on contractors–is readily available in the actual presentation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThis top line $60 billion figure is 25% above the estimated $48 billion budget for FY 08. It is quite probable that this total figure was not even known by the government until recently. Greater control and oversight of the Intelligence Community budget was a hallmark of the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 that created the position of the Director of National Intelligence and gave it the mandate to get an overview of the entire amount spent on intelligence government-wide. To this end, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has recently gathered all parts of the previously fragmented Intelligence Community budget together for the first time as part of its Intelligence Resource Information System (IRIS). In the report from the Select Senate Committee on Intelligence released last Thursday, the committee praised the Office of the Director of Intelligence for creating a single budget system called the Intelligence Resource Information System. It also recognizes their efforts in helping create what will be used for further inquiry by the Committee’s budget and audit staffs and will be a baseline that allows the Congress and DNI to derive trend data from future reports..<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tBien entendu, il y a toutes les raisons de croire que Hillhouse est plus proche de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 que les s\u00e9nateurs des comit\u00e9s ad hoc<\/em>. Une phrase du plus haut int\u00e9r\u00eat dans le texte de Hillhouse, qu’il faut \u00e9videmment retenir, est celle-ci : \u00abIt is quite probable that this total figure was not even known by the government until recently.<\/em>\u00bb Nous sommes effectivement dans l’univers compl\u00e8tement opaque, post-kafka\u00efen, d’une bureaucratie qui ne se conna\u00eet plus elle-m\u00eame. Il s’agit d’un monde hors de tout contr\u00f4le, mais dont la probable r\u00e9alit\u00e9 par rapport \u00e0 celle qui nous est offerte est toujours plus haute<\/strong> lorsqu’il s’agit des questions de d\u00e9penses. Il s’agit d’un monde automatique, aveugle, qui inspire notre politique g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de cette m\u00eame fa\u00e7on automatique et aveugle, sans que personne n’ait l’esprit de poser des questions vraiment s\u00e9rieuses. Here is the way it is<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 11 juin 2007 \u00e0 15H50<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tr\u00e8s r\u00e9cemment encore, nous donnions les plus r\u00e9centes estimations du budget du renseignement aux USA (les 16 agences concern\u00e9es), qui atteindrait $48 milliards pour 2008. 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