From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 94 09:19:30 PDT
To: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Subject: Re: NRO spoof
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Eric Hughes says:
>    with Sen. John Warner expressing his displeasure with how the
>    "intelligence community" has hidden the money for a massive
>    construction effort to house the NRO.
> 
> Steal this line: "The black budget is taxation without representation."

The black budget, as with most things Congress does these days, is
unconstitutional, as in:

   No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of
   appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the
   receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time
   to time.

Perry