<P> On August 29, 2013 the Washington Post published the summary of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's multivolume FY 2013 Congressional Budget Justification, the U.S. intelligence community's top - secret "black budget ." The IC's FY 2013 budget details, how the 16 spy agencies use the money and how it performs against the goals set by the president and Congress . Experts said that access to such details about U.S. spy programs is without precedent . Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists, which provides analyses of national security issues stated that "It was a titanic struggle just to get the top - line budget number disclosed, and that has only been done consistently since 2007...but a real grasp of the structure and operations of the intelligence bureaucracy has been totally beyond public reach . This kind of material, even on a historical basis, has simply not been available ." Access to budget details will enable an informed public debate on intelligence spending for the first time said the co-chair of the 9 / 11 Commission Lee H. Hamilton . He added that Americans should not be excluded from the budget process because the intelligence community has a profound impact on the life of ordinary Americans . </P> <P> Intelligence Community Oversight duties are distributed to both the Executive and Legislative branches . Primary Executive oversight is performed by the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the Joint Intelligence Community Council, the Office of the Inspector General, and the Office of Management and Budget . Primary congressional oversight jurisdiction over the IC is assigned to two committees: the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence . The House Armed Services Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee draft bills to annually authorize the budgets of DoD intelligence activities, and both the House and Senate appropriations committees annually draft bills to appropriate the budgets of the IC . The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs took a leading role in formulating the intelligence reform legislation in the 108th Congress . </P>

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