This week the Washington Post points out, those are just the steps the Pentagon is disclosing: The Pentagon spends $22 billion on space programs and is investing an additional $5 billion in space efforts this year, including $2 billion for what is known as "space control,” which includes its highly classified offensive programs. [Air Force Gen. John] Hyten declined to discuss the ways in which the United States is preparing to attack other countries in space. But the United States has had the capability to blow up satellites since 1985, when an F-15 fighter pilot fired a missile into space that took out an old military observation satellite. [The Washington Post] The U.S. currently relies on space satellites for everything from providing communication in remote areas and guiding ships, bombs, and drones, to providing civilians with driving directions and television signals. "We have considered space a sanctuary for quite some time," Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work said. "And therefore a lot of our systems are big, expensive, enormously capable, but enormously vulnerable." Read the full story on why the Pentagon is turning its defense efforts toward space The Washington Post Back in 2013, Britain has asked the New York Times to get rid of copies of documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. That's as another US newspaper revealed from one of the top-secret files, just how much America spends on surveillance . The so called Black Budget has never been shown to the public until now. Meanwhile Snowden's leaks have won him international recognition.
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