Great Moments in Powerpoint

By Steve Poftak
June 12th, 2007

No, not the Gettysburg Address. (Full site is here.)

At a recent conference for government procurement officers, the chief procurement officer of the Director of National Intelligence’s office gave a powerpoint presentation. She hid the labels on Slide 11 that gave our national intelligence budget, but after it was posted online, you could double click on the chart to see the (understandably classified) actual numbers.

Using the data on Slide 11, and dividing by the ratio on Slide 10, inquiring minds now know that our government spends $56.52 billion on intelligence. Ooops.

Tip of the pen to Slate for the initial links.