The Fed Who Blew the Whistle

Michael Isikoff is a traitor and should be tried and convicted for aiding and abetting the Bush Administration in the performance of its illegal acts - especially disseminating false intelligence about the bogus Iraqi nuclear threats to the United States.

In the tradition of Woodward and Berstein, good job Tamm. Gov't doesnt get to do whatever the hell it is they feel like, and whoever thinks they should, is living in the wrong country and is totally anti-American.
For those of you traitors that think he did the wrong thing, Russia is back open for business, pack a bag and take a perminant trip.

Yanks, if you don't want Tamm, send him over here. We can use more people with guts, because we are now where you are headed...a police state. Send us Tamm, and those who support him. The rest of you "patriotic Americans" can enjoy devolving into a police state that promises to keep you safe. The fact that they weren't working on keeping you safe with respect to what Tamm spoke out about should not deter you. Send us all that disagree with the idea that national security trumps civil liberties.

Your loss will be our gain.

Frances Townsend has zero tolerance for whistleblowers going to the media. I find incompetent investigations dieturbing. Fran's Hurricene Katrina Lessons learned report omitted any mention of the hospital with the largest death toll. The for-profit hospital has ties to the Bush clan. Are any whistleblowers under the thumb of our federal bureacracy in this regard? Without the media, we might never know.

I am perplexed by this whole eavesdropping nonesense. First, the supreme court has routinely held that ones right to privacy is directly contengent upon the "reasonable expectation of privacy". The idea that a phone conversation is private is a throwback to the pre-digital age. In the modern era phone calls are bounced around the atmosphere from satilites to towers to antnenas and are picked up by handheld walkie-talkies, police scanners, other cordless and cellular phones and even some car radios. The bottm line is that there is not a reasonable expectation of privacy any longer with a phone call. Therefore any government action to intcept this communication cannot, by definiton, be unlawful. The law is always slow to catch up with technology but it will and the fuss over this will seem strange.

I have just scanned through all of the posts thus far, and I wish to make these observations:

1) Thomas Tamm upheld his oath to defend the U.S. Constitution (which by the way, in the military version, reads "against all enemies foreign and domestic)" He is a hero and should be treated as such by all Americans.

2) It is obvious that American education needs to re-institute old-fashioned civics classics, in which young people are taught that the U.S. Constitution is the highest law of the land and should be preserved, protected and defended by all, presidents and their minions included. Right-wing propaganda, especially since 9/11, has so poisoned Americans' minds with fear that we no longer remember who we are or why our country was founded.

3) For those who wish to contribute to Tamm's defense fund, here's the address:
Thomas Tamm Legal Defense Fund
Bank of Georgetown
5236 44th Street
Washington, DC 20015.

Thank you, Thomas Tamm, Newsweek and the New York Times. You have all done great service to the real America.

Putting aside Mr. Tamm's angst, which is justified, in regard to his predicament, I'm very much interested in knowing what his opinion is in regard to impeachment.

If Congress allowed this president to override the Constitution -- not only in regard to FISA, but many other areas as well -- does he fear that the proverbial welcome mat has been laid down for future presidencies? In Mr. Tramm's opinion, why has this president escaped accountability for what -- I think -- are high crimes & misdemeanors?

Will we ever get out of this Twilight Zone?

How sad that Bush was ever elected!! This man has disgraced our country, his family, and all the families that his policies touched including Iraq and Afghanistan. I can't even call him President Bush.....Bush should be put on trial for his crimes against the constitution of the United States of America. He is the worst President in the history of our country!!

let me remind you once again.In WW2 we had hundres of Soviet agents turning over secret classified informtion to the Soviets,When caught the excuse was they were serving a higher duty.Their actions condemned much of Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to slavery ,allowed the USSR to create the Republic of North Korea and
gave the Soviets the A bomb and H bomb a decade ahead of where they would have been,and was a key behind Stalins decision to have N Korea invade the South in 1951.
.No one has the right to decide he can reveal secrets he has sworn to protect.If Tamm was really driven by conscience then resign and go elsewhere.Can a guard at the airport allow passengers to board without checking their luggage because he believes check ins are unconstitutional?I have before me the Constitution.Will the persons citing the Constitution kindly cite the section that says the President does not have the authority to data mine wireless messages looking for clues to terrorist activities.Keep in mind that the program at no time looked at the text of the messages,but simply at
the duration,sources,and frequencies of certain combinations believed to be characteristic of potential terror attacks.
Tamm has already revealed a source of his unhappiness.He disagrees with US policies on capital punishment and on aggresive interrogation.He was getting even for a wide range of political differences he had with the administration.Under a nation of laws his appropriate action was to resign and run for office.If you can get a majority to agee with you , you have a good chance of getting your way.Leaking to newspapers is cowardly,lazy, and illegal.Fr those of you who disagree , tell me what country and whose laws permit disgruntled government employees to leak information they have sworn to keep secret.

I said, Arrest, Prosecute and Punish thew traiter by putting him in jail for life! He is a traitor.

When I read some of the posts on this topic, I understand why GWB was reelected despite beginning a war by lying to the American people, intruding on our privacy, and allowing torture, which is against the law in our country, and according to US law should be punishable even if it takes place in another country. Mr. Tamm is a true American hero, but like many heroes before him, he gets prosecuted by those in power who are afraid to lose that power. Shame on the Bush administration for allowing this lawlessness to happen. Shame on congress and the judicial department for allowing Bush to destroy the balance if power in the US government.

I can't believe there are still people defending Bush's illegal wiretaps. This is how we lose our rights, by just standing by and letting the government take them. Do you people want to live in a police state? It sure looks like it.