The Fed Who Blew the Whistle

This guy has more than likely experienced so many repulsive situations that he'd had enough. His life is f*cked-up and it's nothing he can do about it. He should sue the Government for any and every thing he can. Also, given the chance, the Government will 'sell him out' in a heartbeat. Hope what he's had to say puts some people behind bars like regular citizens and Americans get.

Democracy depends, ultimately, on the convictions and integrity of "little people", i.e. staff sargeants, assistant attorneys, and the millions of the rest of us, who will -- or won't -- "follow orders" they believe to be morally corrupt. The nazis and stalinists used terror and mass murder to silence dissenters -- and their regimes ultimately disintegrated as a result. Tamm did what Specialist Joseph Danby (the man who exposed Abu Graib), James Comey, and Daniel Ellsberg did: at great personal risk, he took steps to expose something he knew to be illegal and wrong. This is courage. It's a defense of our laws and constitution. This isn't about "red or blue" - it's about "red white and blue" ie what our country actually stands for. Without people like Tamm, we're in alot of trouble.

This is why we need one than one party in this country.

Would this come to light in a Democratic Administration? I think not. The press is a mouthpiece for the Democrats. We are on the verge of Totalitarianism in this country. Remember the Illegal searches of the TSA (under the Fourth Amendment) Everyone is searched. Everyone cannot be searched in your car for drugs per the supreme court 2006 during a routine traffic stop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution, there Must be cause. But Airports are different?) But were are the Progressives? The Democrats? No where to be seen since they created the TSA and 40000 Jobs are assoicated with it.

Meanwhile Mexican drug gangs come across the border into Phoenix to kidnap and torture US Citizens. Ports and Shipping is not protected.

It seems to me that protecting the constitution is the higher calling. Expecting someone to use official procedures to report unconstitutional acts is crazy rhetoric as it informs the very same chain of command that made the decisions to set aside the laws and protections of the constitution. A person who believes in the constitution looses faith in leadership to whom rights are merely inconveniences. When a person makes the decision to report this sort of abuse of power, they act in complete selflessness; they have everything to lose in doing what their oath requires, and only their integrity to retain. The laws were written to protect our national secrets, not criminal decisions made in secret and kept so in a self-justifying plurality. The substance is quite different, to be sure, between valid national secrets and the secrets of those hiding their own abuses of power. Sleep well Mr. Tamm, you deserve it. Keep the faith, sir.

I have often told my son who is a moderate leaning Republican that one third of the American population would have lived quite comfortably under the Thrid Reich. This is just another example. Ask me if I trust the government of the United States.

THANK YOU!!!!
It is nice to know that people within the beauracracy still have loyalty to the everyday American, whoever that may be. More and more it seems like our rights as Americans are fabricated, illusions of youth (remnants of school history lessons) that are harshly yanked away when faced with the real world and the government's actions, the governement that is supposedly the gaurdian of these rights.
Thank you Mr. Tamm. You are, without a doubt, a true hero.

Shanshayla: "We were attacked on a regular basis throughout the Clinton years... tell us how many times since 9/11 we've been attacked"

The only terrorist attacks on US territory during the Clinton years were bombs set off by right-wingers like Tim McVeigh and fundamentalist anti-abortionists like Erik Rudolph (who also bombed the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Park). And the first attack on the WTC, which killed 6 people. Are you talking about attacks worldwide and on our allies? According to the State Department's annual report on International Terrorism, the number of terrorist attacks worldwide went from 200 in 2003, to 3000 in 2004 to 11,000 in 2005. At which point the Bush administration quit keeping track of terrorist attacks because the numbers so clearly discredited their policies.

Our own National Intelligence Estimate stated that the war in Iraq was the primary recruitment vehicle for the violent Islamic extremists who perpetrated 90% of those attacks. While we were wasting hundreds of billions to fight that war and remove Iran's chief MidEast rival and increase Iran's influence, Al Qaeda reorganized and resupplied in their secure havens in western Pakistan. While this administration ignored them. Rumsfeld even went so far as to declare victory in Afghanistan on the same day President Bush made his victory speech on the USS Lincoln under the "Mission Accomplished" banner.

Shanshayla you are a true coward,I would give every American life up before giving up one sentence of our constitution.Our government has overstepped its right to govern.How many terrorist has this wire tapping program caught?Let me tell you none.Old Democrat the problem with our government is secret information.Secrets are derived by cowards who cannot mean what they say and say what they mean.Our public officials running around with their BS security secrets get a grip on reality.Your country is being ran by a bunch of self serving lying pukes face it.

I wish somebody..ANYBODY would look into what Veterans are experiencing at the Dayton VA medical center

Unbelievable! It is morally acceptable to stick a pair of scissors into the soft spot on the top of the head of a nine month featus and suck its brains out, but, those same people scream that the President who implements a robotic scan of foreign email into and out of the U.S. is a nazi? What a bunch of repugnant amoral hypocrites. It is OK to take a baby that was born alive from a botched abortion and put it in a hospital storeroom to die, but it is a crime to pour water over a terrorist's face to extract vital intelligence to protect out troops. This whole country has turned upside down. We are in a graveyard spiral of our own making from which there appears to be no escape.

Poor man inspite of his familty background history didn't understand national security and committed a criminal act for some twisted logic driven by zero trust in his countries leaders and misplaced fairness for terrorist rights to commit terrorism.

in the 1940's,the US govt was riddled with communist spies who did incredible damage to the US,strengthened the USSR and helped the enslavement of the people of middle and eastern Europe.When caught , they all used the same excuse.They disagreed with the policies of the Administration,and believed they were serving a broader justice by taking the law into their own hands.The authority of the President and the Executive Branch comes from the Constitution via the elector process.Tamm may well have , and probably has cost lives.Who knows if the Mumbai plotters might have been stopped but for this man. This self-righteous creep should face the stiffest penalty the law allows.

He gave away an important capability. Misguided traitor.