Hiding things from Congress

Kevin Drum is an interesting source of news today. He links to a report speculating that the CIA may be producing counterfeit U.S. dollars and using them to fund secret operations overseas in order keep those operations outside the control of the American Congress. I guess it wouldn't surprise me much. This administration has never had any interest in involving Congress in anything, and even before the Bushies, the CIA has never liked much oversight, so the two are likely to work well together.

Unfortunately, it turns out that the counterfeiting is not saving the taxpayers any money, since it costs more to produce the counterfeit currency than the currency is worth.