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Cuts to Non-Existent Agency TheGatewayPundit.com In an effort to scare voters, the Obama Administration released a detailed report on the upcoming sequester cuts… including cuts to an agency that shut down in June 2012. Reason reported: "If you want a thorough agency-by-agency rundown of the budget cuts sequestration would deliver, the Office of Management and Budget has you covered. In compliance with The Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012, the OMB sent a detailed report to Congress in September 2012. But there’s a small problem with the report: One of the cuts it warns against would affect an agency that no longer exists–and didn’t exist when the OMB sent its report to congress. "The first line item on page 121 of the OMB’s September 2012 report says that under sequestration the National Drug Intelligence Center would lose $2 million of its $20 million budget. While that’s slightly more than 8.2 percent (rounding error or scare tactic?), the bigger problem is that the National Drug Intelligence Center shuttered its doors on June 15, 2012–three months before the OMB issued its report to Congress. "And although the NDIC's responsiblities and budget were absorbed by the DEA, the NDIC's pre-closure budget was $20 million, and the DEA requested only $8 million to absorb some of the department's employees. "But the real issue is still the same: The OMB report lists the NDIC as its own division under 'Department of Justice, General Administration,' which is false. The center no longer exists, even if some of its responsiblities are being done by the DEA." The U.S. Department of Justice shut down its National Drug Intelligence Center, which produced the annual National Drug Threat Assessments, before 2012. READ FULL SOURCE ARTICLE: 02/25/2013 Editor's Note: Progressives not telling the truth? You don't say?!... The BasicsProject.org informational and educational pamphlet series is now available for Kindle and iPad. Click here to find out more... The New Media Journal and BasicsProject.org are not funded by outside sources. We exist exclusively on tax deductible donations from our readers and contributors. Please make a tax deductible donation today.
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