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
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