Bush FBI Sent 18 Armored Agents to Wiretap Home of Whistleblower

[Stuart G]

Source: Raw Story

Bush FBI sent 18 armored agents to search my house, wiretap whistleblower says


By John Byrne

Published: June 5, 2009
Updated 6 hours ago





The Bush Administration’s FBI sent 18 agents in body armor to the home of a man who revealed details of the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program, according to a little-noticed account of the whistleblower published Thursday.

Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department lawyer in the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, revealed details of the wiretapping program to the New York Times in 2004. In 2007, FBI agents raided his Potomac, Maryland home.

Tamm wasn’t there. His college-aged son, wife and young daughter were — but their father had never told them of his leak to the Times.

“They asked me questions like ‘Are there any secret rooms or compartments in the house’?” Terry Tamm, his son, told Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff last December. “Or did we have a safe? They asked us if any New York Times reporters had been to the house. We had no idea why any of this was happening.”


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[havocmom]

1. So, those of us who suggested the wiretaps were part of agenda to maintain power

and not security of the nation do NOT have to keep tin foil hats on?

[blm]

3. Exactly.....gee...would these people steal an election? Would they deepsix official reports?

Would they sabotage any open government lawmaker who crossed them? Would they target any investigative journalist who dared to write about their criminal operations?

[glitch]

7. Course not! Billions, excuse me, Trillions at stake. Nah, not them, finest Americans EVER.

They would never intimidate* people who got in the way of their LOOT.

* murder, torture, blackmail, bribe, attack, start wars, allow to be attacked, allow to drown, threaten with mushroom clouds.

[Amonester]

2. "Look forward."

The ** maladministration was above all laws.

Get over it. ("seems" to be sayin' the Obama Administration.)

[pscot]

4. I just don't understand

how it can be good for the country to sweep all this garbage under the rug. It smells to high heaven.

[Stuart G]

6. This is garbage indeed..18 FBI agents in armored suits..for a

wiretap?

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Yeah, that's not intimidating.

But, I guess that's the point.

[G_j]

8. K&R

[Vidar]

9. Watergate pales by comparison.

[DCKit]

10. "Are you sure you want to recommend this thread?"

Where's the "Hell Yes" button?