We did $50 billion worth of spying last year, according to the Washington Post today. The director of national intelligence will disclose today that national intelligence activities amounting to roughly 80 percent of all U.S. intelligence spending for the year cost more than $40 billion, according to sources on Capitol Hill and inside the administration. The disclosure means that when military spending is added, aggregate U.S. intelligence spending for fiscal 2007 exceeded $50 billion, according to these sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the total remains classified. How much of that budget was used to spy on Americans is unknown, as is the size of the budget compared to most prior years. Budget disaggregates are still classified, and only on a few occasions have intelligence officials disclosed size of agency budgets. But for comparison's sake, the spying budget is about the same size as president's FY08 budget request for the entire Department of Homeland Security, which was $46.4 billion.