ACLU report urges Congress to overhaul U.S. Secrecy Laws and increase oversight of the Secret Security Establishment. ACLU report: “Government secrecy is growing like a cancer in our democracy” ACLU: “Sprawling-and growing -secret security establishment presents an active threat to individual liberty and undermines the very notion of government of, by and for the people” Report: “We are now living in an age of government secrecy run amok” It is not unusual for privacy and civil rights groups that challenge illegal government policies of warrantless surveillance to hit brick wall of secrecy.”]