Looking for a Leaker (FBI raids the home of possible FISA leaker)

Newsweek ^ | Aug 7, 2007 | Michael Isikoff

[DesScorp]

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.")

[DesScorp]

Looks like Bush is finally getting serious about cracking down on these officials that leak classified info to the press...

[ishabibble]

Really?

HANG MARY MCCARTHY AND DANA PRIEST!!

[jrooney]

You can read some good stuff on this at Justoneminute, Strata Sphere and Macsmind. This is one of the reasons the democrats have been trying desperately to get rid of Gonzalez. Investigations have been ongoing with popcorn trails leading back to the democrats.

[SW6906]

I pray you are right. We need to start hanging some of these traitors.

[vetsvette]

In other breaking news, Tamm has announced that he has put Valerie Plame’s attorney, publisher and publicist all under contract. And the ACLU has agreed to both represent Tamm during his current legal issues as well and sue the U.S. Government, AG Gonzales and President Bush on a pro bono basis. The ACLU fully expects Tamm to be completely exonerated, perhaps even eligible for a major financial reward, under The Whistleblower Protection Act.

[VOA]

those who didn’t see “The Company” on cable this last Sunday missed
a treat...
a re-enactment (however fictionalized) of James Jesus Angleton
learning he was supplying critical information to his old friend
(an agent of the USSR)

[bikerMD]

We need to start hanging some of these traitors.

These 3 would be excellent gallows test dummies.

[caisson71]

Hang’um and hang’um high.

[tiredoflaundry]

I wonder if this is the same guy??
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=MD&last=Tamm

[mewzilla]

More on Tamm...

FISA leak investigation:An interesting Development (important update)

[mewzilla]

According to this link....

An Ongoing Leak Investigation?

....sounds like the same dude.

[mewzilla]

Tamm's lawyer...?

Paul F. Kemp

[NoBullZone]

Get a STRONG rope for the one in the middle!

[DesScorp]

So his group gets George Soros money, eh?

[mewzilla]

If that Kemp is Tamm's lawyer, and Kemp is with Venable, more on Venable at this link. Scroll about halfway down.

US: The Top 10 Corporate Democrats-For-Hire

[mewzilla]

Let’s just say you can tell a lot about a client from his lawyer.

[Beckwith]

Talk about a trifecta!

[tiredoflaundry]

Just a ping a ling in case you were going to talk about this tonight.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Yeah. The last 15 minutes of his administration W gets serious.

[flynmudd]

Justice moves slowly.