They'll Never Tell

Is this a great country or what? According the Supremes you can't sue over being secretly wiretapped by the government unless you can prove you were wiretapped and the only proof is in the government's hands and it is secret. You lose!We lose!

It begs the question of why there can't be a panel convened that has the proper clearance to review who was in fact wiretapped illegally and let them be notified. It might be, of course, that there were so many illegal actions that it is an impossible task. Even if it only applied to people that have made overseas calls the number would be huge. I know from experience that the government default action is to capture everything and then sort through it later. We'll never know. Well you might know when no one can explain why, all of a sudden, you are on the no fly list.

Is this a great country or what?

Christy over at Firedoglake has all the legal beagle stuff.