• Your answer should be at least one page in length, but no more than three.
• What information would you need as a public administrator before you could make any decisions about the budget. Include this in your answer. I want to know your thought process for the recommendations you make.
• Would you increase spending or decrease it? Why?
• Would you change who knows about the black budget details? Why or why not?
• Would you make any budget cuts? Would you add anything to the budget? Make sure to explain your reasoning for each recommendation.

The movie Zero Dark Thirty won an Oscar for its portrayal of the daring raid on terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in 2011. The movie peels back just a bit of the secret intelligence world that made the raid possible. But the reality is a far larger and more sophisticated world than most Americans-in fact, most members of Congress-realized. For example, as SEAL Team Six was on the ground, they had help from incredibly sophisticated satellites overhead that picked up intelligence as the commandos broke into the compound. Before the SEAL team hit the ground, the federal National Reconnaissance Office had collected more than 387 high-resolution images of the compound, and a special outfit called the Tailored Access Operations group installed spyware and tracking devices on phones and computers used inside the al Qaeda network. A special stealth drone, the RQ-170, flew over Pakistan to pick up information. All this helped intelligence analysts determine they had zeroed in on their target. Afterward, managers managed to dig up an extra $2.5 million in money for overtime and extra computers to sift through all the intelligence that the SEALs brought out with them on their helicopters.! All this came out of the federal government's "black budget," hidden in super-secret compartments of the national security budget. Only a handful of members of Congress know the details of what's inside the "black" part of the defense budget and, until very recently, almost no one outside the intelligence community even knew how large it was. Until, that is, former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst Edward Snowden leaked top-secret documents to the Washington Post and Britain's Guardian newspapers. From those materials came a first-ever portrait of the government's clandestine world. As Figure 11.5 shows, the "black budget" was $52.6 billion in fiscal year 2013, with the CIA receiving the largest share. Close behind was the NSA, which intercepts foreign electronic signals to analyze intelligence, and the National Reconnaissance Office, which operates reconnaissance satellites. Two smaller operations rounded out the top five of the "black" world: the National Geospatial Intelligence Program, which develops imagery and mapping, and the General Defense Intelligence Program, which assesses foreign intelligence and capabilities. Together these five agencies accounted for over 85 percent of total black budget" spending. Note: The top five recipients amounted to approximately $45.1 billion of a total $52.6 billion (about 85.7 percent) in black budget spending. The remaining recipients included the Department of Justice Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Specialized Reconnaissance Programs, Department of Defense Foreign Counter-Intelligence Program, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Energy And who works inside this secret world? The leaked documents revealed that the intelligence community has almost 84,000 civilian employees, in the United States and abroad (with the CIA accounting for the largest share, at more than 21,000). Military officials accounted for 23,400 employees, two-thirds of whom were in the NSA. As Figure 11.6 shows, about 17 percent of the total (21,800) are full-time contractors - like Edward Snowden (who worked for the NSA in Hawaii, after receiving his security clearance after a review by employees working under contract). The bin Laden raid was only part of the huge "black" world. In 2011, the Post learned, the intelligence community undertook 231 offensive cybersecurity operations. In an operation under the code name GENIE, American experts hacked into foreign computers to allow the government to monitor their operations and control them from afar. Special targets were China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, the top- secret documents said. And in an elite operation known as "the ROC" (short for the Remote Operations Center), elite NSA hackers ran a sophisticated effort to discover and exploit defenses in foreign computers. Full-time contractors, 21,800 (17%) Military positions, 23,400 (18%) Civilian employees (excluding full-time contractors) 61,875 These "black" operations might not make for the blockbuster drama of a midnight raid by Navy SEALs. But that raid wouldn't have been possible without these "black" operativesand the operatives define a vast new part of the nation's intelligence operations that had been largely invisible before Edward Snowden leaked the documents. Antae What would you recommend for the pure of dig for these prow? Write your recommendations for black budget pending Points . Make your thought. Think as the publistrator in charge of this budget. I want to see and not agrees teve specific condition . Make sure you wig cand error/typo to You will lose ponts for multiple gratis nors and types . Your answer the best last one page in length, but more than the What information would you need an a publicador before you could make my decisions about the budget Include this in your answer. I want to know your thought prooms for the recommendations you make . Would you inte spending order? Why? . Would you change who know about the black budget details? Why of why not? . Would you make any budget cut? Would you add anything to the budget Make sure to explain your reasoning for each recommendation The movie Zero Dark Thirty won an Oscar for its portrayal of the daring raid on terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in 2011. The movie peels back just a bit of the secret intelligence world that made the raid possible. But the reality is a far larger and more sophisticated world than most Americans-in fact, most members of Congress-realized. For example, as SEAL Team Six was on the ground, they had help from incredibly sophisticated satellites overhead that picked up intelligence as the commandos broke into the compound. Before the SEAL team hit the ground, the federal National Reconnaissance Office had collected more than 387 high-resolution images of the compound, and a special outfit called the Tailored Access Operations group installed spyware and tracking devices on phones and computers used inside the al Qaeda network. A special stealth drone, the RQ-170, flew over Pakistan to pick up information. All this helped intelligence analysts determine they had zeroed in on their target. Afterward, managers managed to dig up an extra $2.5 million in money for overtime and extra computers to sift through all the intelligence that the SEALs brought out with them on their helicopters.! All this came out of the federal government's "black budget," hidden in super-secret compartments of the national security budget. Only a handful of members of Congress know the details of what's inside the "black" part of the defense budget and, until very recently, almost no one outside the intelligence community even knew how large it was. Until, that is, former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst Edward Snowden leaked top-secret documents to the Washington Post and Britain's Guardian newspapers. From those materials came a first-ever portrait of the government's clandestine world. As Figure 11.5 shows, the "black budget" was $52.6 billion in fiscal year 2013, with the CIA receiving the largest share. Close behind was the NSA, which intercepts foreign electronic signals to analyze intelligence, and the National Reconnaissance Office, which operates reconnaissance satellites. Two smaller operations rounded out the top five of the "black" world: the National Geospatial Intelligence Program, which develops imagery and mapping, and the General Defense Intelligence Program, which assesses foreign intelligence and capabilities. Together these five agencies accounted for over 85 percent of total black budget" spending. Note: The top five recipients amounted to approximately $45.1 billion of a total $52.6 billion (about 85.7 percent) in black budget spending. The remaining recipients included the Department of Justice Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Specialized Reconnaissance Programs, Department of Defense Foreign Counter-Intelligence Program, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Energy And who works inside this secret world? The leaked documents revealed that the intelligence community has almost 84,000 civilian employees, in the United States and abroad (with the CIA accounting for the largest share, at more than 21,000). Military officials accounted for 23,400 employees, two-thirds of whom were in the NSA. As Figure 11.6 shows, about 17 percent of the total (21,800) are full-time contractors - like Edward Snowden (who worked for the NSA in Hawaii, after receiving his security clearance after a review by employees working under contract). The bin Laden raid was only part of the huge "black" world. In 2011, the Post learned, the intelligence community undertook 231 offensive cybersecurity operations. In an operation under the code name GENIE, American experts hacked into foreign computers to allow the government to monitor their operations and control them from afar. Special targets were China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, the top- secret documents said. And in an elite operation known as "the ROC" (short for the Remote Operations Center), elite NSA hackers ran a sophisticated effort to discover and exploit defenses in foreign computers. Full-time contractors, 21,800 (17%) Military positions, 23,400 (18%) Civilian employees (excluding full-time contractors) 61,875 These "black" operations might not make for the blockbuster drama of a midnight raid by Navy SEALs. But that raid wouldn't have been possible without these "black" operativesand the operatives define a vast new part of the nation's intelligence operations that had been largely invisible before Edward Snowden leaked the documents. Antae What would you recommend for the pure of dig for these prow? Write your recommendations for black budget pending Points . Make your thought. Think as the publistrator in charge of this budget. I want to see and not agrees teve specific condition . Make sure you wig cand error/typo to You will lose ponts for multiple gratis nors and types . Your answer the best last one page in length, but more than the What information would you need an a publicador before you could make my decisions about the budget Include this in your answer. I want to know your thought prooms for the recommendations you make . Would you inte spending order? Why? . Would you change who know about the black budget details? Why of why not? . Would you make any budget cut? Would you add anything to the budget Make sure to explain your reasoning for each recommendation