Unacknowledged (2017) - The Structure of Secrecy
Steven M. Greer (2′43′’) :
And so the public has to understand there became to be this bifurcation that this separation between legitimate national security and military operations, and the deep black programs that are unacknowledged. We're talking about the black budget, the deep black, super-secret unacknowledged budget that runs in the 100 to 200 billion dollars a year. I'm being conservative.
George W. Bush (3′09′’) :
My '03 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending.
More money for the Pentagon when it's own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25% of what it already spends.
Donald Rumsfeld (3′24′’) :
According to some estimates we cannot track 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions.
$2.3 trillion with a "T." That's $8,000 for every man, woman, and child in America.
Michael Schratt (3′39′’) :
We're spending well over a $100 million per day on classified programs that have no congressional oversight, no public scrutiny, uh, there is no monitor of these programs. A number of these programs go directly through Congress, totally. When you start going through these documents, these programs start dropping off the radar screen. These are all classified programs within the defense budget, but they don't supply any technical information on the program.
Steven M. Greer (4′05′’) :
And if people think that the Congress and the President actually have a hand on this, they're gravely mistaken. They do not. This is where we get into the structure of secrecy.
