xXBatmanXx wrote on Jun 20, 2014, 09:17:

House votes 293-123 to cut funding for NSA spying on Americans.

Won't matter will it? Thought this fell under the "black budget" or under Homeland Security unlimited funding....

Most likely. They are merely voting to end the funding that is a matter of public record, not the off-record kind. It also has to be approved by the Senate. The CIA also gets funneled 'black budget' off the record funding for their various illegal and criminal activities. Some of which is actually tax payer money, but tax payers get no say in it. They are not cutting of black budget money. So tax payers are directly paying for CIA operations that illegally train neo-nazi's, for instance, in Ukraine, or terrorist training camps in Jordan, or funneling stuff to them in Libya and Syria.

Secrecy powers by the state throughout history is to directly hide what a government is doing that is by all definitions illegal and immoral. And that's what those agencies are for.