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 ...
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?
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