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FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker
During the hours that Congress was debating codifying the Bush administration's wiretapping by revising the FISA law, the Department of Justice was raiding the home of former Justice official Thomas M. Tamm to identify the person who first brought the illicit program to light: "The agents seized Tamm's desktop computer, two of his children's laptops and a cache of personal files... the raid was related to a Justice criminal probe into who leaked details of the warrantless eavesdropping program to the news media... James X. Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology said the raid was 'amazing' and shows the administration's misplaced priorities: using FBI agents to track down leakers instead of processing intel warrants to close the [purported surveillance] gaps."
Fuck this country. I'm tempted to finish my education and then emigrate to Canada; America doesn't deserve my contribution to it's economy.
Yes mods, I'm pretty sure I've got the score right.....
/. is still a minority. And you can take all the 'polls' you want, data can be slanted in any direction with those (1 out of 5 doctors say so).
As easy as it is to condem the current administration, lets not forget that that position has the power it does because the collective slowly gave up power to the Executive branch. Folks can scream all they want about "I didn't give them power," but in reality, those were the minority. Sorry folks, a Majority on
I know the threats to Impeach are really a 'payback' for the Clinton Impeachment. It's hard to believe, but yes, the democrats are as mean, underhanded, and unforgiving as the republicans. Each party's agenda is priority one for each of the respective parties, an none of them include you (the individual).
And for the nieve in the audience, this type of stuff probably has been going on for years in the Government. I'm not defending it, I'm just making sure you don't get on the media train again and realize that the republicans or Bush just invented this type of thing. (Vince Foster anyone?)
Bitter and negative you say? Yeah, probably. I call it reality.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
Tiqui - must be the smartest person at in this thread. I am a Viet Nam vet (not like Kerry). Leaks are very important. they lead to un-warranted deaths... I remind everyone about the Warrant Officer Walker case. During the the Viet Nam war he leaked codes, documents and thousands of bits of info to the French ? No the enemy! How many of our guys died cuz Walker Lied? He swore (Like I did) to defend ... He sold out.
One thing I miss about military justices is that you were punished the same way if you "attempted" a crime as if you had already "completed" the crime. In the civililan world a guy can be released from jail because "it" was his first offense ... Oh, like they did a crime by accident?
leaks are not an accident they come from negligence or intentional acts.
just a plain ol' guy
We live in a police state...(at least the Americans among us do).
20 months it takes them to try to find the person who leaked highly classified information. I hope the guilty party does life in prison.
And, for what it's worth, most of you guys are complete imbeciles with all of the throwing around of words you don't understand, like "fascism", "dictatorship", blah, blah, blah. Most of you wouldn't recognize a real fascist or dictator if one of your favorite useful idiots went down to Venezuela to do a photo-op with one.
You have got to be kidding me. There is no doubt that most of the /. readers are far left. Many comments are radical left. The fact is, that due to the overabundance of liberalism, people think that true republicans are far right. This country needs to get back to its conservative roots, because if we don't, were gonna end up like most of Europe, being strong armed by militant Islam.