Spies Whining about their Budgets

The Washington Post has obtained a copy of the "Black Budget" from superspy Edward Snowden -- this is our spending on all the various secret and supersecret agencies that do spying and assassinations for us. It is fascinating, and more proof that Edward Snowden is the most important American of his generation.I am sure all the major discoveries will be in the news, but I was most struck by this line from Naitonal Intelligence Director James Clapper:

Never before has the Intelligence Community been called upon to master such complexity and so many issues in such a resource-constrained environment.

Oh, sure, the Cold War, Vietnam, World War II, those were simple times, when we had so few issues to deal with. And the notion that our spying is "resource constrained" would be very funny if some people didn't seem to believe it.