Think Big Brother is tapping your phone and reading your email? Want to go to court and make the government prove its surveillance program is constitutional?
Well, you can't, according to the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling, because you can't say for sure that your privacy has been breached.
In case this Catch-22 doesn't bother you enough, there's more. The court on Feb. 26 decided not to hear complaints involving the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended in 2008. That law says the government can intercept any communication between the U.S. and any non-U.S. citizen abroad provided its purpose is to obtain foreign intelligence (duh) and it uses generic procedures to minimize privacy intrusion — procedures that we are (surprise) not allowed to know.