cheaper food and gas as inflation remains high. its sales and membership income has held up well. costco s net sales rose 2% year over year to $52.6 billion in the most recently quarter that ended may 7th. chief financial officer richard gilante, says customers have seen customers purchase fewer items. and costco has held off in a hike in membership fees. understood, we ll see how this goes down. melissa repko, thank you for that. that does it for us. check out my colleague stephanie ruhle s exclusive interview with janet yellen. watch the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle, and make sure to joining us for chris jansing reports every day from 1:00 to
this contravenes our interest and underminds the american security and the security of our friends in the region, especially the israelis. gordon chang, it is a wonderful, interesting perspective on an unexamined component of the crisis. thank you for your time, sir. thank you. america spends tens of billions of dollars every year on secret spy programs. news of this so-called black budget came to the washington post earlier this week from nsa leak erred ward snowden. chief con leaker edward snowden. we look now at what is in these spy documents. a $52.6 billion top secret spy budget for fiscal 2013 which the washington post says it obtained from former intelligence contractor edward snowden reveals details which insiders say could provide damaging insight for foreign intelligence services. among the revelation, u.s. intelligence agencies have made slow progress trying to address key questions about chemical and biological weapons and intelligence
fascinating detail here. first of all, you ve detailed that it s $52.6 billion, 69% goes to the nsa, cia and the national reconnaissance center. how have you assessed from all that you have been reporting here the value we re getting, the bank for the buck? what are we doing well and not so well? they have some fairly frank internal report cards here. they talk about where they think they ve had successes and where they have critical gaps. of course, the president and congress are most concerned about the gaps to start with because there are things that they need to know to do their jobs and they don t know them. for example, there are five of those critical gaps with regard to the north korean nuclear program, a subject of a great deal of concern to this government. there is no other country that has as many as five. there are others that have three or four. so the whole nuclear counter proliferation thing, which involves weapons of greatest concern to the united states is
network operations, they ve had massive distributed denial service attacks against american banks. now, that s more than an irritant, but it s well short of what you re describing, wolf. one final question on this washington post story that moved on their website, which has not been shut down today, a story once again information from edward snowden, detailing the $52.6 billion, let s call it, black budget, of the u.s. intelligence community. this was always kept secret, how this money was spent. it s now been out there. what, if any damage, do you believe was caused by this report? we ll have to see. i read the story that was posted, all right? and that talks in general figures, what the cia budget was, what the nsa budget was, and so on. that causes some harm, but not a great deal of harm. you go to the website and start clicking on things and get down to specific operational activities. that could be very, very disruptive. general hayden, thanks very much for coming in. w
they are not part of the coalition of the willing after this vote on the parliament? not with active military action but there are other ways they can participate. we are learning more tonight about the capabilities of the u.s. intelligence system as well as what it can not do. reporter: a $52.6 billion top secret spy budget for fiscal 2013 which the washington post says it obtained from edward snowden reveal details which insiders say could provide damaging insight. u.s. intelligence agencies made slow progress trying to address key questions about chemical and biological weapons. on syria the national security agency was able to monitor unincrypted communications at the start of the civil war until president bashar al assad s