Looking For a Leaker (Jail the reporters and make them talk)

msnbc ^ | 8/5/2007 | Michael Isikoff/Newsweak

[tobyhill]

Aug. 13, 2007 issue - The controversy over President Bush's warrantless surveillance program took another surprise turn last week when a team of FBI agents, armed with a classified search warrant, raided the suburban Washington home of a former Justice Department lawyer. The lawyer, Thomas M. Tamm, previously worked in Justice's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR)—the supersecret unit that oversees surveillance of terrorist and espionage targets. The agents seized Tamm's desktop computer, two of his children's laptops and a cache of personal files. Tamm and his lawyer, Paul Kemp, declined any comment. So did the FBI. But two legal sources who asked not to be identified talking about an ongoing case told NEWSWEEK the raid was related to a Justice criminal probe into who leaked details of the warrantless eavesdropping program to the news media. The raid appears to be the first significant development in the probe since The New York Times reported in December 2005 that Bush had authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on the international phone calls and e-mails of U.S. residents without court warrants. (At the time, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said of the leak: "This is really hurting national security; this has really hurt our country.")

[ConservativeofColor]

Here's one.

[xcamel]

Ah... “Senator Depends” from the CCCP-VT

[OCC]

But two legal sources who asked not to be identified talking about an ongoing case told NEWSWEEK the raid was related to a Justice criminal probe into who leaked details of the warrantless eavesdropping program to the news media.

Leaking about a leak crime, whats up with that? Can NEWSLEAK be a little more specific how these "legal sources" would be in a position to know anything factual?

[Natchez Hawk]

“At the time AG Gonzales said: ‘this is really hurting national security’ “

He’s on familiar ground there.

[kcvl]

Thomas M. Tamm

Firm: State of Maryland, State Attorney’s Office, Montgomery County, Staff Attorney

Tamm worked at OIPR during a critical period in 2004 when senior Justice officials first strongly objected to the surveillance program.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Michael Isikoff

I'll wait for the real story.

[jazusamo]

James X. Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology said the raid was "amazing" and shows the administration's misplaced priorities

Misplaced priorities? I'm sure both Dempsey and Isikoff feel they're misplaced but by coming down on leakers of classified material will slow down the hit pieces of Newsweak, The Slimes and other MSM traitors and put law breakers behind bars. That's a good thing, IMO.

[Melchior]

In 2004 Tamm gave $500 to the DNC.

[Melchior]

James X. Dempsey is an ultra-left wing “progressive” of the old Henry Wallace stripe. He is a preferred author of the People for the American War.

[Go Gordon]

But two legal sources who asked not to be identified talking about an ongoing case told NEWSWEEK...

You'd think the idiots would take a clue and keep their mouths shut. Now the FBI has to find the two additional leakers.

[jazusamo]

Thanks...I didn’t know who he is but figured by his statement he must be a left winger.

[JimRed]

They need to perfect the “canary trap”, in which slight differences in detail are given to each suspect. When the leak goes public, the version will identify the leaker.

[mimaw]

Who else but left wing weenies would leak information to hurt our efforts in this war on terror? If he did he should hang.

[roses of sharon]

Excellent news, a DNC hack busted, hope the enemy moles in the CIA are next.