After putting the intelligence budget through three years of sequestration-level funding—and the likely return to sequestration levels this year, the United States is in serious jeopardy of repeating the fatal mistakes of the early 1990s when it drastically slashed its intelligence budget and exposed the nation to serious risks. In a post 9/11 world, the intelligence budget peaked in 2010, but since then, it’s been cut by some $10 billion.This should set off alarm bells. As the 9/11 Commission Report documents, in the years following the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the US drastically cut its intelligence capability, …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research