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Intelligence Director To Get More Budget Control

November 03 2010

USA

The director of national intelligence says he has reached a "conceptual agreement" with the Pentagon to take control of the national intelligence budget starting in 2013, the Washington Post reports.

The pending move is part of an effort to enhance the office of the director with authority over the U.S. intelligence community, James Clapper said.

About $53 billion would be taken from the DoD budget. The $27 billion military intelligence budget would remain under the Defense...

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