The US government invoked the "state secrets privilege" in an attempt to have the EFF's spy program case against the NSA quashed.
Though the existence of a secretive NSA spy program with direct links into the domestic US voice and data grids has now been well documented, it has so far proved impossible to turn up any hard evidence about what the spooks are doing with all their data, or even what data is being collected. All private attempts at learning if US citizens are being illegally spied upon have been stonewalled by the government, and the same fate looks likely to befall the EFF tomorrow in court.
ArsTechnica has details.
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