This seems significant:
A federal judge has ruled that Amnesty International and other human rights groups can assert the same privileges that journalists use, allowing them to better protect anonymous sources.
Unless I read it wrong, this makes it far easier to blow the whistle on, say, warrantless surveillance of American citizens by expanding the number of groups that can field a complaint without having to give up your identity. Anything that makes a government that spends so much of its time now looking over our shoulders watch its own back a little more strikes me as a good thing.