Whoa, is this X-Files stuff or more Lockheed-Martin welfare?

Key Democrat Calls Spy Bill's Mystery Program a National Security Threat
From Associated Press

December 9, 2004

WASHINGTON — Congress' new blueprint for U.S. intelligence spending includes a mysterious and expensive spy program that drew extraordinary criticism from leading Democrats, with one saying the highly classified project is a threat to national security.

In an unusual rebuke, Sen. John D. ''Jay'' Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that the spy project was "totally unjustified and very, very wasteful and dangerous to the national security.” He called the program "stunningly expensive."

Rockefeller and three other Democratic senators — Richard Durbin of Illinois, Carl Levin of Michigan, and Ron Wyden of Oregon — refused to sign the congressional compromise negotiated by others in the House and Senate that provides for future U.S. intelligence activities.

The compromise noted that the four senators believed the mystery program was unnecessary and its cost unjustified and that "they believe that the funds for this item should be expended on other intelligence programs that will make a surer and greater contribution to national security."

This sounds like another Missile Defense boondoggle. Corporate welfare for the Pentagon's friends at Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, and who knows how many else?