I will presume that this comment was made with forthrightness and lack of information rather than attempting to obfuscate a fairly obvious funding funnel from t

I will presume that this comment was made with forthrightness and lack of information rather than attempting to obfuscate a fairly obvious funding funnel from the US -> IDF -> 8200. The US gov't provides billions, yearly, in monetary aid and guaranteed loans to Israel specifically for military funding. Sure, most of that has earmarks, but that's the way the game is played. This doesn't account for anything in the black budget, which as you can imagine, probably includes quite a bit for this realm. With Israel currently considered an indispensable intelligence partner (and thusly an outsourced R&D partner), I find it hard to suspend disbelief enough to accept that U.S. taxpayers aren't funding Unit 8200 just because there isn't a line item in public budgets.