Preaching to the choir, but this is why whistle blowers are especially important;

  The ruling rejected the state-secrets argument. “Given
  the multiple public disclosures of information regarding
  the surveillance program, the court does not find that the
  very subject matter of the suits constitutes a state
  secret,” Judge Jeffrey White wrote in the ruling.

Everyone "knew" the NSA was wiretapping everything, but until Snowden leaked the docs, lawsuits like this were regularly shut down under 'state secret' doctrine. I don't exactly have high hopes for how it will turn out, but at least now perhaps we'll one day see Robert's tortured reasoning for why he let this happen.