Mealey's (September 7, 2022, 11:25 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly a year after the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed that jurisdictional discovery sought by Wikimedia Foundation in its lawsuit claiming constitutional violations by the National Security Agency (NSA) was barred by the state secrets privilege, Wikimedia on Aug. 26 filed a petition for certiorari in which it calls the agency’s online upstream surveillance program “a sweeping invasion of Americans’ privacy” and argues that such governmental actions should be able to be challenged by parties with nonprivileged evidence....