Everything seems to go up in price these days—food, clothing, gasoline, even government secrets. A new report from an obscure federal operation (the Information Security Oversight Office) says Washington is now spending at least $9.93 billion to keep a vast amount of information classified. This cost (up from $9.85 billion reported last year) includes not only the process of classifying documents as secret, but also the expense of maintaining human and computer security to guard closeted information.