From BLT:
What happened in that room is one of the closest guarded secrets surrounding the Bush administration’s NSA wiretapping program. WaPo’s Dan Eggen has the story. Money quote:
Tomorrow, a three-judge panel will hear arguments on whether the case, which may provide the clearest indication yet of how the spying program has worked, can go forward. So far, evidence in the case suggests a massive effort by the NSA to tap into the backbone of the Internet to retrieve millions of e-mails and other communications, which the government could sift and analyze for suspicious patterns or other signs of terrorist activity, according to court records, plaintiffs' attorneys and technology experts.
The Justice Department is challenging the standing of the plaintiffs to sue just as it did last month in a similar case brought by the ACLU. That case was thrown out on grounds that no one involved in the suit could prove he or she had been surveilled - because, of course, that is a secret.
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