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August 6, 2007

Target Of Raid In Connection With FISA Leak Investigation Is ...

Topics: War on Terror

Remember the NYT report in December 2005 that President Bush had authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on the international phone calls and e-mails of U.S. residents without court warrants?

Now, via Michael Isikoff at Newsweek, there's an interesting development in the investigation and the target is Thomas M. Tamm, who previously worked in Justice's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR) - a super-secret unit that oversees surveillance of terrorist and espionage targets.

NewsBusters says the Newsweek story by Michael Isikoff doesn't mention what might have caused the FBI to be suspicious of the alleged leaker - Bush Derangement Syndrome blog postings by Thomas Tamm.

One such BDS posting was made by a reader identifying himself as Thomas Mann in the New York Times The Caucus political blog. The post was a sarcastic comment at 11:42 AM in the November 29, 2006 edition of The Caucus over the possibility of civil war in Iraq:
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

Even more revealing is this BDS post to Eric Alterman by Thomas Tamm in the far left Media Matters:


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.

If it turns out that Thomas M. Tamm is the FISA leaker, then a good case could be made that BDS postings on the web might have been his undoing.

And according to AJStrata, the leak trail leads right into the DNC!

Background here and here.




Posted by Richard at August 6, 2007 12:56 PM


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