USA: Warning that Congress does not cut the intelligence budget

The U.S. intelligence service could make the same mistakes that led to the Al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2011, if Congress cuts its budget too much, current and former spies and other intelligence officials say. affairs and national security, warns that the last time the US declared victory in the long-running intelligence war - against the Soviets in the 2011s - the government reduced the scope of intelligence operations in Africa, just as Al Qaeda was taking root there. Congressmen say that although the budget will for the intelligence service in both 2012 and 80 to remain at the same level, it is still more than $2 billion, for the third year in a row. They also tacitly agreed to continue funding the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) unit that found Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed by American special forces on May XNUMX in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.