Where your money goes

Apparently the CIA has stopped using vaccine programs in its spy operations in the wake of deadly attacks on polio vaccination workers in Pakistan.

An Obama aide says the CIA stopped these operations last August. (One example: they had used a fake vaccine program in their search for Osama Bin Laden.)

Based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden, we know that for fiscal year 2013, the federal government set aside nearly $53 billion for U.S. intelligence agencies and operations, including $14.7 billion for the CIA, the most requested for any agency. Last August, the Washington Post reported: “Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how it uses the money or how it performs against the goals set by the president and Congress.”