Can Americans sue over NSA surveillance? The government has long
argued that since people can't prove they were targeted, they
don't have standing to sue. But after Edward Snowden's
revelations... Kwazi Nkrumah speaks at a protest outside the
U.S. Capitol against the NSA's recently detailed surveillance
programs. Kwazi Nkrumah speaks at a protest outside the U.S.
Capitol against the NSA's recently detailed surveillance
programs. Win McNamee/Getty Images  ince the George W. Bush
administration's warrantless domestic wiretapping program was
uncovered in 2005, some 70 lawsuits have been filed in federal
court to challenge the government's broad collection of
Americans' telephone and internet data. Nearly all of them have
been dismissed, in part because the plaintiffs couldn't show
they were targeted by the top-secret programs.  Former National
Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's leaks may have
changed that, according to legal scholars and civil
libertarians. At least five new lawsuits have been filed sin