NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say
It should be noted that their position on standing comes straight from <i>Clapper v. Amnesty International, No. 11-1025</i> which the Supreme Court decided in the government's favor this year.<p>The decision is that likely targets of surveillance who cannot prove that they were ACTUALLY surveilled have no standing to file a court case where they could issue subpoenas to the government which could prove whether they were.  In short it is a catch-22.  You can't sue about being unconstitutionally searched unless you can prove it happened.  But you can't prove it happened without suing.<p>And the Supreme Court thinks that this is acceptable.