"The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. government’s surveillance program..."

WaPo reports.

The ACLU lawsuit will bring the surveillance programs into federal court, setting up a challenge for Obama, who pledged during his 2008 presidential campaign to bring more transparency and proportion to national security policy after the George W. Bush administration.

ADDED: Back in August 2006, I had an op-ed in the NYT about a decision in a case called American Civil Liberties Union v. National Security Agency. It's interesting to me to look back at that and see if I'm still thinking the same way 7 years and one President later. 

AND: Here's Glenn Greenwald — of all people — lambasting me for what I said.