Black Budget Programs Proven by Snowden

Snowden’s done it again. Just when you thought he’d run out of secret documents detailing sordid government affairs, he releases yet another throve of shocking classified information. This time, the government has been proven to be funding Black Budget programs, according to a Washington Post report. The document in question can be found here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/164056434/FY-2013-Congressional-Budget-Justification

This might come as no surprise to most historians (and probably most people in general thanks to Snowden) for the government has a long history of funding secretive organisations. The NSA, for one, was completely shrouded from the public eye for the first 8 years of its inception.  The National Reconnaissance Office was kept secret for 30 years.

These secret programs are known as “Special Access Programs”,(SAP) or “Deep Black Programs” , with a senate report deeming them “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.”

The leaked documents seem to indicate that 52.6 billion dollars was the amount budgeted for SAPs. However Paul Hellyer , who is the former Canadian Minister of National Defence, seems to think that the budget should have been in the trillions rather than mere billions:

It is ironic that the U.S. would begin a devastating war, allegedly in search of weapons of mass destruction when the most worrisome developments in this field are occurring in your own backyard.  It is ironic that the U.S. should be fighting monstrously expensive wars  allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects which both congress and the commander in chief know nothing about.

Congress inquiries have revealed that trillions of dollars are unaccounted for in the Federal Reserve System. Donald Rumsfeld was quoted as saying:

The financial systems of the department of defence are so snarled up that we can’t account for some $2.6 trillion in transactions that exist, if that’s believable

According to aviation Journalist Bill Sweetman (Sweetman, 2000), approximately 150 unaccounted SAPs exist, unknown to even the highest government and even military officials. These programs are apparently headed by private military industrial complex companies such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Dwight Eissenhower, former 5-star general and former President of the US, warned against the influence of private industries on the military:

In the council of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential disaster of the rise of mis placed power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes

John F. Kennedy had similar sentiments regarding the military industrial Complex… Or perhaps it was communism? Strange stuff to say regardless:

The very word secrecy is repugnant, in a free and open society. And we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control.

We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence. On Infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumour is printed, no secret is revealed

The amount reserved for Black Budget programs are kept secret from the average person, but that technicality might soon be compromised thanks to Snowden and perhaps other heroic anti-spies.

Conspiracy theory has long been a term used by the mainstream media to characterise those who disagree with the stance they were told to take. Such names are designed to shut off critical thinking among viewers and render men who question the official story into pariahs. These days mainstream media is starting to take the same sort of undertone, thanks mostly due to their dogged stance of only portraying one side of certain stories (I don’t recall one mainstream source that was particularly against the Iraq war).

However, what’s good for the gander is not good for the goose, and indulging in such mind-numbing behavior should be avoided regardless of the source, “mainstream” or Conspiracy”, and readers should look instead at the facts that are presented.

Now for the most controversial of allegations: UFOs and even extra-terrestrials are of interest to the NSA according to their own declassified documents, proving either that the NSA is comprised of insane men that cannot be trusted with your naked photos(likely) or that the…. Secrets… being kept …are beyond our wildest imagination. Those NSA men be conspiracy theorists ah say.