The Fed Who Blew the Whistle

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  • Posted By: ATS ADVISOR @ 12/16/2008 5:15:55 PM

    The man is a modern Patriot. Making such crimes known to the public should re-enforce the idea that there are still
    honest individuals within the government's many postions. Just few are far between. Too many people care more about the next promotion than their duty as Americans.

    "United We Stand, The Rest Is, Not An Option!"???
    ATS ADVISOR

  • Posted By: Cliff-N-Cali @ 12/14/2008 6:17:50 AM

    This guy is in NO WAY a hero! How do you think the FBI and CIA are staying a step ahead of these people? Do you think their using telepothy or using a secret satelite system to track their every move? You people live in a dream world and it must be coated with sugar and spice that makes everything sweet and nice. Wake up stupid this is the real world!

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 12/14/2008 12:02:44 PM

      "Wake up stupid this is the real world!"

      Translation: You don't believe the rule of law can compete with barbarism.

      How pathetic.

      • Posted By: Shanshayla @ 12/14/2008 12:33:37 PM

        Trying to prevent future attacks on America and save lives by intercepting phone calls from the people who are trying to kill is not barbaric! Flying jets into buildings and killing 3000 innocent people? Now that's barbaric!

        • Posted By: Vigilance @ 12/14/2008 3:30:21 PM

          Waterboarding? Black-hood suffocation in Gitmo? Nipple clamps in Abu Ghraib? Disease from filthy living conditions?

          All of these share in common a belief that the executive branch of the government is exempt from international or domestic oversight, just like wiretapping.

          • Posted By: Shanshayla @ 12/14/2008 5:31:47 PM

            I'm amazed at how much compassion you have for the enemy. You're very concerned about "their rights", and making sure their conversations are not heard or known about. That would be an invasion of their privacy, and of course trample the constitution into nothingness. If our families die at their hands, (no matter their tactics) well... at least we didn't use wiretapping!

            • Posted By: Vigilance @ 12/16/2008 4:46:39 PM

              Yeah, I don't hate the people you hate as much as you do. Get over it.

              Part of the reason I don't hate half of the Gitmo detainees is because they didn't do any of the things they were accused of. Did you catch any of that news? Are you personally okay with torturing and sickening the innocent to get at some of the guilty? Or do you not care if someone is innocent or not?

              And as far as the last part goes...well, there's an irony there. There are a lot of Americans that would rather die than live in something they consider a police state. A lot of Americans have died to protect Fourth Amendment rights.

            • Posted By: J Frank Parnell @ 12/14/2008 7:00:21 PM

              And I'm amazed at how little respect you have for the Constitution, and how quickly you're willing to throw out the Fourth Amendment on the say-so of the likes of Dick Cheney and David Addington. Notice that the Newsweek article itself presents no justification for warrantless wiretapping, and no basis for believing that the existing FISA laws were inadequate. As far as I know, no argument for what is clearly illegal behavior by the Bush adminisration (beyond "trust us") has ever been advanced.

              • Posted By: Shanshayla @ 12/15/2008 6:38:33 PM

                We all may have been born yesterday, but it was reallllll early in the morning! The dems had every bit as much to do with our ailing economy, if not more so. Google Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Fannie Mae. And almost every democrat voted to go to Iraq. The vast majority were for it. And some credible links please instead of your incredibly biased opinion as to where Bush has violated the constitution. Even this article state that Tamm wasn't sure of every thing he or they were doing.

    • Posted By: OhioGal @ 12/14/2008 8:31:15 AM

      This can be done legally. They can actually start surveillence days before getting the authorization for that surveillence. Bush forgot that he swore and oath to uphold the Constitutionof the United States. Luckily for us, Mr. Tamm had more honor and integrity than Bush.

      We didn't win the cold war by being just like the Soviet Union. We won the cold war because we were so much better than the Soviets. We offered true freedoms and a real opportunity to get ahead by personally working hard. People risked their lives to come to our country because we were better. The way Bush has conducted himself we would just be like rest, secret police spying on private citizens, people not sure whom they could trust, people unable to speak freely, people being arrested and detained without charge and held secretly. Do you really think we will be better off if we become another police state? Do you really think we would be the best? Do you really think that people would risk their lives to join a police state?

      • Posted By: bighappy @ 12/14/2008 12:00:43 PM

        There was never wide agreement that it is illegal. it lies in the dark zone between legal and illegal.
        If he sensed it was illegal - he could appeal to Senat judicial commitee (or its chairman), there should be legal ways to do it. He is a criminal, who revealed secret to our enemies and probably caused sveral deatchs. His inability to do his job and attempts to influence elections proves this point.

  • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 4:37:50 PM

    TAMM, YOU ARE A TRUE HERO AND A PATRIOT! THANK YOU!

  • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 4:36:38 PM

    I hear from so many that he did it because he "hated" Bush. That is so funny my milk just shot out my nose and I wasn't even drinking milk...

  • Posted By: Mike_Dugas @ 12/16/2008 8:40:15 AM

    Regardless off your dislike of Bush, Tamm is a crook and should be in jail. You all are just trying to make him a hero because of a shared dislike of Bush and that's idiotic. If this were to happen during the Obama administration watch how fast the so called whistle blower gets tossed in jail. You don't release classified docs and info because your feelings are hurt or for ideological differences. If he did it for the "right" reasons he should be willing to face the consequences.

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 4:34:57 PM

      You don't unless you are the Bush administration leaking it as they did on SO many accounts. And do you believe yellow cake?? Hmmm... Bush is not respected for good reason. He should be in jail for good reason. This guy stood up to thie sht and is a true patriot, and a hero. Sorry, but you really do not knw the difference.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 12/16/2008 2:15:38 PM

      The consequences of doing the right thing? What?

  • Posted By: Jim448_ @ 12/16/2008 4:33:21 PM

    We need more people like Mr. Tamm!! Mr. Tamm ya done good for the American people. I for one thank you and wish there were more like you!!

  • Posted By: John Morrissey @ 12/14/2008 2:54:27 PM

    to vigilance/"what i so hard about getting a warrant?Well in the summer of 2001 the Mn FBI office had Mossasoui in hand and asked for permission to read his computer.It went to Jamie Gorelic a friend of Bills asst AG at Justice( she of the recent $20 million bonus for leading FNMAE to its current status)gorelick turned down the request.It would have nailed the terrorists in their tracks but concern for someones rights trumped the rights of the 3000 poor devis in the WTC.

    • Posted By: Vigilance @ 12/16/2008 4:30:13 PM

      Okay. Fire her and f|_|ck her. Fire her forever. Fix the department and the warrant process so that doesn't happen again. Don't throw the Fourth Amendment to the winds because some bureaucratic politico hack screwed up the warranting process.

  • Posted By: armykungfu @ 12/16/2008 9:22:32 AM

    Traitor!!!! So a Bush hater leaked secret information in order to affect the election of 2004. Sounds like something Nixon would have approved of.

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 4:26:57 PM

      A Bush hater?? Bush is not liked becuase of what he did. I credit this man for trying to get Bush out of office if that is what his plan was. Bush deserves to be in Jail, niot running free.

      This guy is a patriot, and deserves a parade. Bush is a punk kid with a gun and a badge. He will bve exposed more, how many moer excuses do you have? Are you part of the Bush legacy team?? If you are good fuking luck, he is toast!

  • Posted By: Gloria S @ 12/16/2008 9:45:20 AM

    Arrest, prosecute and puish the traiter.

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 4:19:00 PM

      Bush/Cheney will probably avoid it, so don't get your hopes up. Too bad there aren't more heroes like this guy, he stood up to a corrupt government that has a habit of coming after dissenters, and exposed them anyway. That is a patriot in case you don't know. Somebody that put country before themselves in the face of the kind of sht you aer spouting. Please go back to your country of origin, it is not America...

    • Posted By: YashBudini @ 12/16/2008 2:12:51 PM

      And the sooner W goes to jail the better.

  • Posted By: Gloria S @ 12/16/2008 9:55:56 AM

    I gues Benedict Arnold was really a whistle blower. Would you have put HIM on your cover?

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 4:12:52 PM

      You areally do not study history do you?

      I see people that stand up to thier corrupt government as a true patriot and hero. That is why Bush wanted to stack the deck with loyals, he did not want patriots or people who defended America, he wanted people who bought into his twisted idealism. Unfortunately, when you give a child a gun and a badge that is what you get. An insecure puppet that is used and munipulated by hard core insiders, who's agendas are out of touch with reality, and believe the ends justify the means.

      This guy is a hero...

    • Posted By: Horrible Bastard @ 12/16/2008 10:42:04 AM

      No he wasn't. Benedict Arnold flipped because he didn't get the promotions he thought he deserved, and so took a commission with the British Army. There is no comparison. What the hell are you talking about?

  • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 3:40:00 PM

    Exiting Bush supporters are part of the AXIS of Idiots. Take Bush's advice and please ignore them, maybe they will fo away.

  • Posted By: totalkaosdave @ 12/16/2008 12:42:08 PM

    I believe traitor is the correct adjective. He aided and abetted our enemies...traitor.

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 3:23:24 PM

      I would say "hero" is more appropriate, and Patriot works too...

    • Posted By: Horrible Bastard @ 12/16/2008 12:57:40 PM

      The rule of law is your enemy?

      That's kind of pathetic.

      • Posted By: YashBudini @ 12/16/2008 1:21:19 PM

        Since when do patriots follow laws created by treasonists like Bush? He swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and he said he would fire the person who leaked the name Valerie Plame.

        It's not to late to impeach Bush.

  • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 12/16/2008 2:11:21 PM

    I find it very hard to believe that there are people who actually think that a man who stood up for the constitution is a traitor, and those who broke the law by illegally wiretapping are some kind of heroes.

    I also find it very hard to believe that so-called "conservatives" are arguing for the introduction of big brother.

    This is repulsive. Get a friggin' grip.

    • Posted By: YashBudini @ 12/16/2008 3:22:16 PM

      W has walked all over the Constitution. Where have you been?

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 2:54:20 PM

      I find it hard to believe that there are so many ignorant people in this country. Where stupidity, ignorance and "sticking to his guns" is honored above good judgement. They are trapped in thier own quagmire of denial, and have blood on thier hands, and make excuses for their guy breaking the law at a global level.

      I have absolutely no respect for these people, adn in the future they will be marginalized, as Bush has been. Who listens to him these days?? Well, his leftover ignorant supporters, those that cannot escape thier fate.

  • Posted By: catspaw @ 12/16/2008 3:13:43 PM

    Does it seemed to you all that Bush alined himself w/ Nixon. "It's wrong only if I say it's wrong" It seems like it to me. Thank you Tom, for putting our President in his place.

  • Posted By: jrealty @ 12/16/2008 12:47:19 PM

    Ah...the thankless job of the whiistleblower.. Does anyone know anybody that profited from such a role? I haven't noticed much political hay being made out of this other than to embarrass the President. I suspect that those on the other side of the aisle know full they could have to make the same choice at some distant point in time. I wonder what their choice will be. Massive amounts of causalities and the very undermining of the government or the nipping in the bud of a terrorist act which is found out through the mining of legal or illegal means? With unrepentant home grown terrorists from both sides of the aisle, whom can one trust?

    • Posted By: Horrible Bastard @ 12/16/2008 12:58:45 PM

      What's it like to be so afraid that you cast off your principles?

      • Posted By: YashBudini @ 12/16/2008 1:44:01 PM

        It's like being president.

        • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 3:11:33 PM

          It is like being somebody who had a chance and fukkd it up so badly that they cannot be accountable and have no credibility. So yes, it is like being president "Bush"

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 3:07:19 PM

      We know we can't trust Bush, him and cheney should be in the stockade for the rest of their days.

  • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 12/16/2008 2:18:36 PM

    Also, weren't the right wingers convinced Obama is a crook because he DIDN'T report a felony he supposedly knew about?

    You can't have it both ways.

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/16/2008 3:03:04 PM

      They have no credibilty and are not accountable for themselves and make excuses for thier guy. They are not patriots, they are not even American as far as what this country stands for. They are talk, vapor, bad gas, heads that are boxes full of spite and denial. There is really no debating with people like that. They are no even dealing with reality, or issues that are debatable. They can have it 3 or 4 ways, not just both ways. They make the rules as they go along, and they supported that approach in their president. It is their mentality, that of a elementary school punk bully that was given a badge and a gun. They are only their now for our pleasure to laugh about, and be glad that they lost because they deserved to lose, and they should have never had the chance in the first place to embarass this great country, or abuse it with their faux patriotism, and their fear of the unknown.
      I say Fukkk them, they are not accountable and have zero credibiltity...

  • Posted By: usedbutnotabused @ 12/16/2008 3:01:31 PM

    Tom must be made of the same stuff as our Founding Fathers who risked their safety for the principles of our Constitution. The Bush Administration got it bass ackwards. Forget about throwing shoes----how about an endictments?

  • Posted By: man3d @ 12/16/2008 1:58:01 PM

    Mr. Tamm, if you have not already done so, please set up a web site for your legal defense and include a section for online contributions. I will be your first contributor. You, sir, are a GREAT American. Hold your head high!

  • Posted By: man3d @ 12/16/2008 1:53:38 PM

    This guy should be awarded the Medal of Freedom and appointed Deputy Attorney General.

  • Posted By: man3d @ 12/16/2008 1:52:51 PM

    this guy should be given the Medal of Freedom and appointed Deputy Attorney General

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