Back in Black

You may have thought the DARPA budget was kinky.

But the real hot stuff you'll never see- until it's too late.

Why?

Noah Shachtman says "The Defense Department is now spending more of its money on "black," or classified, programs than at any time since 1988.

"19 percent of the Pentagon's acquistion budget -- the money to research and buy things -- is being devoted to super-secret items, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. That comes out to about 28 billion dollars, almost double what was spent in 1995...

"THERE'S MORE: 'The Defense Department is unable to track how it spent tens of millions of dollars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the U.S. war on terrorism, Congress's top investigator said on Wednesday.'

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