Also, is 30 million really a hefty price tag? I know I shouldn't judge based on American intelligence spending, but 30 million is what it cost to build my counties vocational tech school.

To put it into perspective, Norwegian parliament has spent ~300 million USD (and counting) on its renovation project..

And every major road in Oslo has been tunneled to keep the city pleasant for pedestrians.

Disregarding your gross exaggeration, road infrastructure costs are funded by taxing roads, automobile purchase and fuel.

I don't think they're earmarked in Norway (they're not in most countries). Taxing autos and fuel generates revenue which is general tax revenue, and what goes to road infrastructure is up to political decisions.

This has nothing to do with the scandalous waste of money this project is. Building a municipal garage shouldn't cost like 3 F-35 fighters.

We just spent $250 million on a garage for our members of parliament so I don't think another $33 millions is such a big issue.

So you're saying intelligence agencies should be run outside of all scrutiny and oversight?

Nope. And you know I wasn't saying that. The bit I quoted says "public scrutiny".

Why must intelligence be secret?

Why doesn't Apple release their internal roadmap? Because others would take advantage of that information.

Same thing with intelligence. People don't know your gaps in intelligence gathering if it's all secret. If they do, they'd take advantage of of that information and just work around them.

Because if it's not secret, it's public information and not intelligence anymore?

Why must secrets be kept secret?