Wikimedia Foundation: We’re back in court opposing the NSA’s mass surveillance

… out the case while fielding questions from the judge about topics such as our expert declaration and the legal criteria for establishing standing. Toomey also explained that the state secrets privilege does not apply, because the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act created a process by which courts must review review privileged information in electronic surveillance cases such as ours. If the government seeks to rely on privileged information for its defense, it cannot withhold that information from the court and argue …