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Price of Keeping US Secrets: $11B

...Or at least, that's the price that's not classified

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 3, 2012 9:44 AM CDT

(Newser) – It's not cheap keeping the vast number of secrets the US government does. These days, Uncle Sam spends a whopping $11 billion guarding classified info, twice what it spent a decade ago, the New York Times reports—and that's just the secrets it...   Read full story »

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