Classified Spending On the Rise (23 BILLION ON SECRET PROGRAMS)

[donotpassgo]

By Dan Morgan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 27, 2003; Page A23

"Black," or classified, programs requested in President Bush's 2004 defense budget are at the highest level since 1988, according to a report prepared by the independent Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

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"It's puzzling. It sets the mind to wondering where the money's going and what sort of politically controversial things the administration is doing because they're not telling anybody," said John E. Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a research group in Alexandria that has been critical of the administration's defense priorities.

link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50108-2003Aug26?language=printer

[arcane1]

1. "at the highest level since 1988"

god, there are volumes of meaning and horror behind those seemingly innocent words...

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. My exact thought.

[prolesunited]

2. Another thread here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=85580

[LunaSea]

3. try slogging through some of the UNclassified ideas

the DOD is looking to develop.

some are kinda cool, some are very creepy.
<http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/sbir/solicitations/sbir031/index.htm>

[Occulus]

4. Ahem,

"Wireless Near-Infrared Devices for Neural Monitoring in Operational Environments"

That's on the DARPA list.
:wow:

and

"Fly-By-Light (FBL) Technologies for Directed Energy Weapon Systems"

from the Air Force section.

[LunaSea]

5. You dont EVEN want to know

what they are doing with monkeys brains!

If you aren't totally creeped out yet, check this out-

<http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6506148.WKU.&OS=PN/6506148&RS=PN/6506148>

[Occulus]

6. Yeah.

I've read that before. Kinda scary stuff- I by no means read it all, but enough to get the gist of it.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. a=-V(0)/.pi., b=-2V(0)/.pi

Holy shit!