Revealing the US spy budget

Well, after all these decades of impenetrable secrecy, it is out. The NY Times reported on Nov. 9 that an insider accidentally spilt the beans on how much the US spends on its espionage agencies. The amount is $44 billion. (That is close to recent estimates of about $40 billion.)
 
"In court cases, intelligence officials have argued that disclosing the spy budget would create pressure to disclose more spending details, and that such revelations could aid U.S. adversaries. That argument has been rejected by many in the Congress and other experts, who note that most of the Defense Department budget is published in exhaustive detail without evident harm."