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		danboarder on April 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program Are the budgets for these programs public knowledge? How much money have we (taxpayers) spent (or wasted?) on these "tools"? And for historians, will we ever get to see the source code and details of how they worked (other than powerpoint documents leaked by Snowden..)?

tlrobinson on April 25, 2019 [–]

This particular program, or the whole shebang?

It looks like the NSA got about $11B of the "Black Budget" in 2013 https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black... It's further broken down on that page.

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