In other words, beyond even the outrageously broad "state secrets" privilege invented by the Bush administration and now embraced fully by the Obama administration, the Obama DOJ has now invented a brand new claim of government immunity, one which literally asserts that the U.S. Government is free to intercept all of your communications (calls, emails and the like) and -- even if what they're doing is blatantly illegal and they know it's illegal -- you are barred from suing them unless they "willfully disclose" to the public what they have learned.
Why should the business community care? Unreviewable eavesdropping is a particularly valuable tool for large corporate interests. Completely opaque wiretapping policies open the door to corporate espionage aided by government insiders. A bit of information as simple as finding out before the market does that a company is considering selling to a competitor can be worth millions and millions of dollars. Without proper review of procedures, and without insuring that warrants are issued before taps begin, this information espionage is likely to occur and without anyone finding out.
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