[vetvetdoug]

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

[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

[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.

[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