Today’s big fat surprise
Actually, it’s not surprising at all; the Justice Department has decided that they won’t charge the Department of Justice lawyer who leaked to the media about the Bush Administration’s warrantless “eavesdropping” program. (AP/Stars & Stripes link);
The department informed Thomas Tamm’s attorneys that he will not be prosecuted for the leak that then-President George W. Bush called a breach of national security.
Tamm has said he called The New York Times about the program because it “didn’t smell right” and he thought the public had a right to know.
Yeah, who really expected this Justice Department to prosecute someone who helped to smear the Bush Administration and endangered our National Security. It’s funny, but when I was read into the security program no one mentioned to me that there was an expiration clause on my clearance if I thought something didn’t smell right.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War
Reason number 7,950 that Eric “Sell a Pardon” Holder’s Justice Department sucks.
No surprise here, treason, traitorous acts and violating a constitutional oath is considered patriotism to these assheads. The only these clowns have any judicial interest in is suing Arizona and now South Dakota.
Amazing. When I signed in to the ASA I signed recognitions of a ton of regs 380-something if I remember. They were quite simple, screw up and jail for a long time(flayed alive etc,etc).
I’m still encumbered by my ‘Q’ clearance when I was working for the Dept of Energy at a nuke weapons facility and that was almost 20 years ago and the facility I was working at is now back filled with cement.
It’s good to see that whistle blowers still have protections in this country. It would be hard to decide which was better, following your oath to the President or following your oath to the constitution.
Brought to you by the group that thinks it’s okay to espouse the philosophy of, “Snitches get stitches.”
Unless the snitch is on your side, of course.
And yeah, somewhere inside my service jacket or some friggin box somewhere in a warehouse straight out of Raiders of the Lost Ark are a few Page 13’s I’ve signed stating I be quiet lest I find myself spending the better part of my days in a federal “pound-me-in-the-ass” prison.
“It’s good to see that
whistle blowerstraitors still have protections in this country”.Fixed it for ya. Cuz, it didn’t “smell right” the way you put it.
Usually, when something doesn’t “smell right,” there are procedures and offices (legal, IG) that a whistleblower, or average joe, can go to and get advice on whether or not a program is legal and proper.
What Tamm did was to identify an embarrasing and necessary program, bypass legal counsel and the Inspector General, violate numerous non-disclosure agreements, several laws, and take his case straight to the lamestream media.
By the way, HM2 FMF-SW, were you aware that those protections you trumpet no longer exist for similar actions taken after January of 2009. The IGs were gutted, and DOJ’s first priority is not applying the law. Just a minor note.
On a larger issue for DOJ, how is Tamm not PFC Manning?
Not a problem. There is no statute of limitations on treason. When we get a real president and a real congress that actually works after a fashion, this shitbag can still be tried and convicted for at a minimum wrongly revealing classified information to someone not authorized to receive it. And each person that he passed that information on to is a separate criminal count typically.