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1. Erkan Yılmaz (erkanyilmaz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2014 10:37:14 EST Erkan Yılmaz

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   • drak
   Otis G. #Pike (1921-2014) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_G._Pike
   • Erkan Yılmaz (erkanyilmaz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2014 10:42:00 EST Erkan Yılmaz

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     • Markov Dosto(y)evsky
     "Those were exactly the questions that the intel apparatus did not want asked: What was America's intelligence budget? What was the purpose of the CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies and programs? Were they succeeding by their own standards? Were taxpayers getting their money’s worth? Were they making America safer?" cc @question
   • Erkan Yılmaz (erkanyilmaz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2014 10:43:31 EST Erkan Yılmaz

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     • Markov Dosto(y)evsky
     "Pike's investigations led him to believe that the combined intelligence agencies were massively #understating their budgets, and that the true figure was in the area of $10 #billion in 1975 dollars (about $43 billion today), with the #NSA by far the largest intelligence agency of all." cc @question