> Just because a project or budget is black doesn't necessarily mean it's useless or nefarious.
Of course not, it does mean that we don't have the ability to know if it is useless or nefarious or not.
Of course not, it does mean that we don't have the ability to know if it is useless or nefarious or not.
In reality maybe this doesn't work so well.
Snowden showed they desperately need some light to shine on them once in a while.
Otherwise intelligence agencies have a historically consistent tendency to get a little too laissez faire with people's right.
NRO is probably the most secretive of all of them, but I'm assuming looking at pictures of Russian tanks and Chinese missile silos all day isn't the most civil-rights threatening thing vs storing billions of peoples emails, text messages, and phone calls like the NSA.