Report: FBI Searches Home of Attorney in Warrantless Wiretap Program Case

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[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.

[eyedigress]

Treason is a serious offense. It could get you killed.

[dfwgator]

Since when, if they didn’t execute Aldrich Ames, they won’t execute anybody anymore for treason.

[MizSterious]

Good. I hope they start prosecuting some of these leakers.

[I see my hands]

These subversives should be hung. No lie.

[vetvetdoug]

Is Thomas Tamm a Democrat? A critic of the Bush administration? Associated with the Clintons?

[TASMANIANRED]

It’s about time.

[JackOfVA]

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

[eyedigress]

I understand your point. The Bush Presidency and our national security, took a big hit on this with CNN and NBC and all, telling the idiots they were all being spied on illegally.

If true, he should go the way of the Rosenbergs.

[ishabibble]

First up should be Mary McCarthy of the CIA and Dana Priest, of the WaPo...they should both be hung in the Washington Mall and left to rot.

[P-40]

Some think he is a Patriot. :)

http://blog.myspace.com/cerrulis

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Did anybody vet this turd? Man, where is the common sense?

[mass55th]

Found this at "Media Matters." The page offers and item titled "Altercation" by Eric Alterman. Here's the link to the page it's on:

Click here

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.

[silverleaf]

I hope if he was the leaker, they nail his sorry butt

[Mariner]

If he’s tried and found guilty, he should face a firing squad.

[jim-x]

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

[geezerwheezer]

He’s a former DOJ lawyer who should know better. The zipoid sleazeball still doesn’t understand the President has the constitutional right to hire and fire U.S. attorneys at his will. Shame the damn fool can’t understand that, but what do you expect from the DOJ anyway? All of them are really stupid, otherwise, they would be out on their own making a real living instead of slurping on the government’s teat. I’m beginning to think Mr. Bush needs to ween quite a few more of these crybabies/dimocraps from the DOJ, and soon.

[drpix]

Seems like lawyers are the treasonist Left’s moles in most government agencies.

[Enchante]

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.....

[TheDon]

We live in a post treason age.