Posted on 08/05/2007 2:16:03 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Report: FBI Searches Home of Attorney in Warrantless Wiretap Program Case
Sunday , August 05, 2007
AP
WASHINGTON — FBI agents searched the home of former Justice Department lawyer Thomas Tamm last week in an effort to determine who leaked details of the warrantless eavesdropping program to the news media, Newsweek magazine reported Sunday, citing two anonymous legal sources.
The agents, who had obtained a classified search warrant, took Tamm's desktop computer, two laptops belonging to his children and some of Tamm's personal files, said Newsweek, which granted anonymity to the two sources because they did not want to be identified talking about an open case.
Tamm left the department last year. He had worked in the department's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, a secretive unit that oversees surveillance of terrorist and espionage targets, according to Newsweek.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Treason is a serious offense. It could get you killed.
Since when, if they didn’t execute Aldrich Ames, they won’t execute anybody anymore for treason.
Good. I hope they start prosecuting some of these leakers.
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It’s about time.
Courtesy of the FEC database:
TAMM, THOMAS MARK
POTOMAC, MD 20854
US ATTORNEYS OFFICE/ATTORNEY
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
09/17/2004 300.00 24991283185
Jack
Did anybody vet this turd? Man, where is the common sense?
It's down a bit on the page.
It looks like Tamm is a Democrat or at least a big critic of the White House. With his complaints about the firing of the U.S. Attorney's, it's not hard to see him leaking to the press about the wireless phone taps.
Correspondence Corner:
Name: Thomas M. Tamm
Hometown: Potomac, Maryland USA
Dear Eric: Is not the administration's position that they would not permit the U.S. Attorney to prosecute a Congressional Contempt referral an implicit admission that they allow politics to impact prosecutions? They are admitting that they would interfere with the independent judgment of a prosecutor on a specific case. I suggest that this is precisely what the firings of the U.S. Attorneys are ultimately about. Yes, they serve at the pleasure of the president, but they do not prosecute at the pleasure of the president. The White House is guilty of taking the blindfold off lady justice, not just covering her breasts. I am a former DOJ lawyer, for what that is worth.
I hope if he was the leaker, they nail his sorry butt
If he’s tried and found guilty, he should face a firing squad.
according to a document at DOJ, he received an award in 2000 which would indicate he was there during the clinton years.
http://www.usdoj.gov/archive/ag/speeches/2000/awards.htm
Seems like lawyers are the treasonist Left’s moles in most government agencies.
They need to be searching the hard drives and email and phone records of Schumer-mole James Comey — there’s little doubt that he’s been involved in leaking, and if he gets nailed the Demagogues will face the dilemma of whether they defend their mole or run for the hills.....
We live in a post treason age.
I think this is a huge development. Who knows what other present or former DOJ employees this might lead to. I would love it if it led to Schumer, Leaky or Kennedy. People at the Wash Post might be prosecuted too since the DOJ recently ruled that journalists who expose national security secrets could be prosecuted.
Not if you are a dhimmicrat.
BUMP
Slick Willie upon moving into the White House decided to convert as many political appointee positions to career civil service as he could. I bet this guy was one of them who would have been fired/replaced by a Republican administration.
This is also part of the problem with CIA and NSA.
> If he’s tried and found guilty, he should face a firing squad. <
Too “honorable” a punishment. The scaffold would be more appropriate.
Ping.
Who leaked the details of the investigation regarding the leak?
It’s about time!
Pinging you to this...figured you might be interested. Lets get a REAL leaker and prosecute the heck out of him/her.
Yes.Thnx
"November 29th, 2006
11:42 am
It is not yet a civil war. It won’t be a civil war until there are two armies, one from the north, one from the south. The two armies must wear blue and gray respectively, and must be led by U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. Only then will it meet our definition of a civil war.
— Posted by Thomas Tamm"
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PING ~!!
Tamm will be Hillary’s attorney general if she doesn’t give the job to Fitzy.
There’s a blog comment from a Thomas Tamm from Nov 2006, critical of the Bush Admin not calling Iraq a Civil War in sarcastic terms. Same guy? If so he’s a lib with the so called “Shadow Gov’t”.
URL:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/the-civil-war-at-home/
Yawn. Yeah, now that he has a whole year left maybe Bush can finally get serious about going after some of the scumbag Democrats he left in his Justice Department.
Bush was, and remains, too weak.
"Many conservatives burrowed within the Department of Justice have long complained that Gonzales has permitted career government employees and hold-overs from Democratic Administrations to remain in perches of power and thereby water down conservative directives from the top. As one conservative and Federalist Society member in the Justice Department told me: This is definitely not Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department, I assure you. You have holdovers from Clinton calling the shots in a lot of places here.” "
Thanks for the info. I hope he gets his just deserves.
Can they search Joseph E. Sandler’s home while they’re at it?
Is he VIPS?
Not to my knowledge. Last week DoJ announced it had determined that journalists could be prosecuted for publishing classified information. For some quick background on this investigation, see http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/01/laughable_claims_about_the_nsa.html
Doesn’t look good for the NYT, I think. At a minimum they’ll be forced to testify again.
Ooops—wrong cite on the DoJ policy announcement. That one is http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/08/reporters_could_be_prosecuted.html
A good start. While they’re at it, go after the other traitors in our midst, like RAT politicians and the MSM. The left complains about turning into an authoritarian police state, might as well give them what they’re whining about.
What the heck took so long??!!! It’s been almost 2 years since the leak. Why weren’t they searching home computers of EVERYONE who had access to the info? Not to mention lie detectors and any other means to test everyone’s culpability. And doing it immediately after the leak! No telling whether he has a new computer by now.
No No No. The Guillotine. Perfect for these people.
Clintonite?
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