Washington Spends $80 Billion a Year on Intelligence Agencies Alone

Washington Spends $80 Billion a Year on Intelligence Agencies Alone: Today I learned the US in a normal year has a "spying budget" of $80 billion (Trump wants to bump it up to 86). That's insane, there is no way good intelligence should cost any more than a couple of billion at the very most. (The only aspect that is money-intensive are satellites.)

I for one didn