No more 'secrets': an important case against NSA spying takes a big step forward

Do the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance programs violate the Constitution? That's the question that civil rights and privacy advocates have been trying to have the courts answer since long before Edward Snowden shared his trove of secret documents with The Guardian and The Washington Post. Now their mission finally seems to be making headway, as a federal judge ruled Monday that the Obama administration can not use its "state secrets" privilege to block a lawsuit originally brough...