Wikimedia Asks High Court To Resolve Questions Of State Secrets Privilege

Mealey's ( January 25, 2023, 2:09 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Jan. 24 reply brief supporting its petition for certiorari, Wikimedia Foundation tells the U.S. Supreme Court that its lawsuit alleging statutory and constitutional violations in the National Security Agency’s upstream surveillance activities was wrongly dismissed under the state secrets privilege despite the fact that it was “able to proceed based entirely on public evidence.”...