Constitutional Law Professor Jon Turley

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I want to clarify something that Keith Olbermann says in this clip. He says that the "sovereign immunity" claim that the Obama administration is pressing says that you can't sue the government for illegally spying on you as long as the government doesn't use that information. That's not true. What it says is that you can't sue the government unless it "willfully discloses" publicly the information it has illegally gotten about you. They can use it, they just can't disclose it publicly. That's no mere semantic argument. And "willfully" says nothing about "leaks". They can not only use it privately, they can leak it, publicly.