Looking For a Leaker - FBI Raids Home of former Justice Dept Lawyer

[EV_Ares]

Newsweek
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.")

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[shraby]

1. I was under the impression that it isn't illegal to

leak about illegal activities.

[Tatiana]

2. This is why we need strong whistleblower protection legislation. n/t

[MadMaddie]

4. The Rethuglicans have weakend the whistleblower laws...

whistleblowers are litterly targets under this administration...

The Democratic party needs to ask the question "Why is the WH going after the leaker "whistleblower" and not investigating the true crimes?

You see change whistle blower to leaker and it sounds ominous...more Rethuglican bullshit...of an illegal act

[nashville_brook]

3. he must be a good guy, or else he wouldn't be in trouble