‘Black budget’ summary details U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives

‘Black budget’ summary details U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives: The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former ­intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. 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.