It looks like the head of the Justice Department is raiding his own staff member's home to ID the wiretap leaker. Who else is next?
PERRspectives:
This past week, the Bush administration added insult to injury over its illegal program of NSA domestic surveillance. During the very time Congress was debating codifying President Bush’s lawbreaking by revising the FISA law many of his allies have been afraid to publicly challenge as unconstitutional, Alberto Gonzales’ DOJ was raiding the home of a former Justice official to identify the person who first brought the illicit program to light.
As Michael Isikoff details in Newsweek, a team of FBI agents raided the home of Thomas M. Tamm, a veteran prosecutor and former official of the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR) within DOJ:
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.
Even as Alberto Gonzales’ was feebly deflecting perjury charges by apologizing for “creating confusion” with his comments about “no serious disagreement” in 2004 within the administration over its NSA homeland spying scheme, the Attorney General was dispatching the FBI to investigate one of those purportedly disagreeable officials. Read on…
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Read the entire Newsweek article HERE.
5 comments:
Now this is interesting. The FBI is looking for a leaker yet the Attorney General can lie under oath. What does crime mean anyway. Now the White House can commit crimes and lie under oath but if your not part of the Republican crime team your investigated. Sounds alot like the Saddam Democracy at work. Now wasn't their a leak and cover up in the CIA case that the White House say didn't count. Boner just leaked classified information with nothing said. Bush leaks classified information then declassified it afterward.
Yea, what gives with this, Jakie?
(current mood: miffed)
Jan I am waiting for Tony Snow to announce that the President of the United States will prosecute anyone who leaked information to the fullest extend of the law. Bush will have the Attorney General lying Gonzales to make sure this criminal doesn't get away.
I just don't get it. I'm no lawyer but, how can they go after someone who let out that these guys were breaking the law... I just don't get the logic. How can Muller watch his guys do this while he also sees a the law being broken... I'm just at a lose for words to express my concern and pissedness
How low will they go. To take children's computers for evidence without probable cause is a crime. Alot of this is illegal but with a liar as Attorney General and the head of the FBI apologizing for the crimes he committed what can we expect. Is there anyone appointed by Bush/Cheney not a criminal. It's like a never ending crime wave it's keeps going and going and going.
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