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."

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[Capt James McCarthy]

Yes mods, I'm pretty sure I've got the score right.....

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 /. 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).

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.