Any attempt at "secret law" in the US would be pretty straightforward to defeat on the basis that it denies due process and a whole lot else besides. Secret court orders! Retch! Next person to get one should run not walk to the offices of the nearest big newspaper or radio/TV station and do a live on-air interview. Then the govt has to take on the press as well, and by that time it's kinda too late. This worls in theory, but practice can be much more confusing. For instance, the warrant used to invade Steve Jackson Games was sealed, so they couldn't see what was being looked for. If you face a Grand Jury, then you can't take the 5th (thus drug crimes are being pursued by Grand Juries). Etc. I'm not prophesying gloom and doom (at least not here :-), merely pointing out that what makes sense, what seems ethical, what the theory of the law says, and what the practice of the law says are all different, and it's quite easy to be wrong. dean