The Fed Who Blew the Whistle

Who were the objects of these illegal wiretaps? Who did the wiretapping?

If some of the illegal wiretaps of this secret program were carried out on people in Hollywood, who did the work on the ground, and would they legally be allowed to admit their involvment if they were part of this top secret program?

This man is a hero, and anyone who prosicutes him should be the one to go to jail. He put our country first, and our government is still exeed their powers.

This artickel was one of the best Ive read in a long time. Than you!

The government protects the individuals with this equipment, so once the wireless eavesdropping begins, one is powerless to stop it. Severe financial and employment loss ensues, and there are few attorneys to represent the person affected by it.

The Man is a hero. As an agent of the government, it is his duty, under the Constitution, to come forward when he has
knowledge of such criminal behavior no matter who the guilty party is. This business in government that we don't squeel on our fellows is school yard BS. I 've been in law enforcement for 30 years and if the same happened to me it would be my duty to reveal the crime. The President is not GOD, he is a servant of the people.

Is there any way this kind of illegal activity by high government officials can be stopped? Is there any way for honest citizens to stand up and speak out about the illegal use of wiretaps and surveillance and loss of Habeas corpus?. Anything at all that might be effective?

Mr. Isikoff's contention that TS/SCI clearance background checks are really well done is not accurate. The conduct of the law-breaking government officials is really bad. But the risk that poor security clearance checks and patterns of incompetent investigations, lying, and illegal behaviors (without any moral or ethical defense as Mr. Tamm has) by holders of clearances is really disturbing. Read more about this at https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Talk:MITRE_security_clearance_violation. Maybe Mr. Isikoff can do some investigation into this type of security clearance problem?

Bush could have held top secret meetings with a fair sampling of members of Congress to discuss a viable legitimate Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) on a need-to-know basis. Such an approach would have been inclusive of the FISA laws/courts, and the representation of citizens would have been maintained. I have not heard any evidence indicating Bush could not have reasonably been inclusive in this manner.

Mr. Tamm ran across egregious violations of US laws by institutions within our government responsible for enforcing the very same laws. The widespread internal awareness of the violations was enough to warrant going to the press, but the reasonableness of doing so compounds when considering the specific laws being broken, the agencies involved, the then present climate in our nation, and most *especially* our country's history with Executive-sponsored illegal domestic spying.

I thought establishment of the FISA laws/courts meant violators, including those in the Executive, would be prosecuted. Apparently, for the Executive, related areas of government, and various corporations, the law almost means nothing, and is something of a pick-and-choose buffet.

Tamm forced transparency where lack of transparency was being abused. Lack of transparency in and of itself was not the primary problem. It was that it was being used as a pass to violate the law, to present false justifications for war, and to engage in inhumane activity. To date, we're still not certain we know of all abuses. The TSP just happens to be one that someone had the guts to speak up about.

Unfortunately, Bush decided to cowboy the TSP in a manner which, in and of itself, ultimately jeopardized the program's secrecy from the start. If Bush breaks the law he should not expect straight-arrow citizens to magically ignore it, and we citizens should respond to Tamm's actions in a manner which sends a message that such actions will be supported so that our "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

We must try to foster an atmosphere in our country where being truthful will be honored. I'm afraid raising a cloud of suspicion over Tamm's head for standing up for our laws does just the opposite, and it ends up being much more than a prayer for a passive apathetic society which honors status and power, not correct action.

Thank you Mr. Tamm for standing up for we citizens, and for helping to show the way.

Reporting: Eavesdropping to cover-up NSA/CSS and CIA's Directed Energy Weapons Torture and Abuse

There is a growing awareness of U.S. Government???s Intelligence community and the Department of Defenses engagement in covert cognitive neuroscience and neuro-technology research through the use of Extreme Low Frequency (ELF) and microwave based electromagnetic Directed Energy Weapons. I can assure you that these weapons exist and that I am one of thousands people in and outside of the U.S. who have become nonconsensual participants in such research. NSA whistleblowers blowers past and present have provided testimony before the U.S. congress that the NSA is responsible for much more then illegal intelligence surveillance. The resent ABC News reports of privacy and civil liberties abuses via phone and e-mail interception is an unfounded and absurd cover-up for the much more serious crime of covert cognitive neuroscience and neuro-technology research and testing through the use of Extreme Low Frequency (ELF) pulsed microwave ???Psychotronic??? weapons. It is common knowledge that the primary mission of the National Security Agency (NSA) is, ???Signals Intelligence???, ???Cryptanalysis???, and ???Data Mining???. Oversight, in October 2008 Senator Jay Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, announced an examination of allegations by former NSA employees of inappropriate eavesdropping. The NSA has 40,000 employees and an annual budget of $3.6 billion, inappropriate ???Signals Intelligence??? is the least or our worries.
Two former NSA employees Russell Tice and John St. Clair Akwei both testified they used electromagnetic weapons on Americans in America. The New York Times reported that in May of 2005 the NSA ordered Mr. Tice to undergo an unscheduled psychological evaluation and later dismissed him. ???There, a Defense Department psychologist concluded that Tice suffered from psychotic paranoia." Tice later wrote that he "did this even though he admitted that I did not show any of the normal indications of someone suffering from paranoia." The law suit filed by former NSA employee John St. Clair Akwei against the NSA, details the capabilities of ELF electromagnetic weapons in use for remote neural monitoring and cognitive manipulation on a human subjects.

T.R.W. NYC

Mr: Thomas Tamm is ok,the problem is why he is ben stop with this investigation he should keep forward to finish his job
this is only oportunity to really we all find out the rest of it and how many people are involve from the past to the present day or do you think we don't know or try to ignore all this ben happens?

Mr. Comey may have endorsed Mr. Holder as a strategic move. Lockheed is under investigation by the Justice Department and Mr. Comey is in the thick of it.

http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1198058693078

For those conservatives who thinks Mr. Tamm is anything but a hero (those who are so fast to brag how righteous they are, and the same one who claim to be "SOOO" anti-communists, but know nothing about what communism is), they have completely missed the fundamental issue. Under communism, you do whatever the government tells you and you cannot exert your conscience AT ALL. When you CAN do that and WON'T, you might as well be living with the communists! When you COULD and DID speak out against injustice and illegal policies (of Bush and Cheney), you should get a medal! Mr. Tamm has sacrificed much - we should do whatever we can to make his life better for his stand.

Newsweek insults its readers and the Constitution by even suggesting this brave defender of the rule of law is anything but a hero. I urge eveyone to help Mr. Tamms defense against FBI persecutions by contrubuting to the
Thomas Tamm Legal Defense Fund
Bank of Georgetown
5236 44th Street
Washington, DC 20015.

Thank you President Bush -- we have become a police state. The most alarming aspect to the Thomas Tamm affair is that he is the one being pursued by the Justice Department for defending the Constitution rather than those higher up the food chain that were clearly breaking the law by circumventing the FISA supervision over wiretaps. Apparently, to many of those sworn to uphold the Constitution, the one who reveals illegal acts is to be prosecuted rather than those likely to have commited those acts. I recommend some serious house-cleaning at Justice for the new administration.

Like Chaney ,W and the crooks of this administration, I took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the US when I joined the Marine Corp. Like Tamm, I took my oath seriously. He, nor I, nor hundreds of thousands of other citizens who took this oath would look for some bottom feeding lawyers to hide behind and attempt to remake history by saying;" I have legal authority". Also did not the FBI Agent investigating him take the same oath. Is he not going after the wrong party?