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Last month, The Washington Post published details of the nation’s top-secret intelligence budget<\/a>, based on documents provided by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. The documents show that, for the current fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, the intelligence community requested a total of $52.6 billion, with $16.6 billion<\/a> (31.6%) of that designated for counter-terrorism efforts. In fiscal year 2012, the United States spent $17.25 billion on counter-terrorism.<\/p>\n\n

Since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the United States has spent more than $500\u00a0billion on intelligence, according to The Post. The 2013 budget request was about twice the size of the estimated 2001 budget (in constant dollars), the paper said.<\/p>\n\n

In terms of money spent<\/a>, monitoring and disrupting violent extremists and suspected terrorist groups is the intelligence community’s second-biggest mission objective, after warning U.S. leaders about economic instability, societal unrest and other critical events around the world (which takes about $20 billion). Other priorities include preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction, protecting U.S. computer networks and defending against foreign espionage.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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