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RUSH: Now, ‘FBI agents searched the home of a former Justice Department lawyer last week in an effort to determine who leaked details of the warrantless eavesdropping program to the news media, Newsweek magazine reported yesterday, citing two anonymous legal sources. The agents, who had obtained a classified search warrant, took Thomas Tamm\u2019s desktop computer, two laptops belonging to his children and some of Tamm\u2019s personal files, Newsweek reported. Tamm left the department last year. He had worked in the department\u2019s Office of Intelligence Policy and Review…\u2019 Now, I\u2019m going to call that from here on out the OIPR. That\u2019s what its acronym is, because I don\u2019t want to waste all these syllables over the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review every time I have to talk about it. But he worked there, it was an agency of the justice department, and this is the group, this is little subdivision in there that works with the FISA court and deals with warrants. <\/p>\n

‘In December 2005, the New York Times published a story exposing the Bush administration\u2019s warrantless wiretapping program to eavesdrop on international phone calls and e-mails of U.S. residents without court warrants. The eavesdropping was conducted without public knowledge and without court approval until January, when the program was put under the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.\u2019 Alberto Gonzales, the embattled attorney general, said that the leak really hurt our country. Of course, now the administration is going after these leakers, and this guy, Thomas Tamm, appears to be at the top of the list. <\/p>\n

Now, we have a little update on this from Clarice Feldman who does great work at the AmericanThinker.com. Thomas Tamm made a contribution to the Democrat National Committee in 2004. He also posts on various blogs out there. There\u2019s a blog comment actually from Thomas Tamm from November 2006 critical of the Bush administration not calling the Iraq war a civil war in sarcastic terms. I\u2019m not going to bother reading you the post, but he basically goes on to say, ‘I guess we\u2019re not going to call it a civil war \u2019til side\u2019s wearing gray and they\u2019re in the south and one side\u2019s wearing blue and they\u2019re in the north,\u2019 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, Clarice Feldman goes back to the 9\/11 Commission report, page 95, she says this. ‘But the prosecution of Aldrich Ames for espionage in 1994 revived concerns about the prosecutors\u2019 role in intelligence investigations.\u2019 We\u2019re getting to the wall here that Jamie Gorelick and Janet Reno built during the Clinton administration that prevented intelligence agencies from sharing information because they were going to grand juries with this stuff. I\u2019m reading here from the 9\/11 Commission report. <\/p>\n

‘The Department of Justice\u2019s Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR),\u2019 where this Thomas Tamm guy worked, ‘is responsible for reviewing and presenting all FISA applications to the FISA Court. It worried that because of the numerous prior consultations between FBI agents and prosecutors, the judge might rule that the FISA warrants had been misused. If that had happened, Ames might have escaped conviction. Richard Scruggs, the acting head of OIPR, complained to Attorney General Janet Reno about the lack of information-sharing controls. On his own, he began imposing information-sharing procedures for FISA material. The Office of Intelligence Policy and Review became the gatekeeper for the flow of FISA information to criminal prosecutors.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Clarice Feldman notes that ‘OIPR was the stumbling block in the Moussaoui case. So FISA seemed to be working fine prior to 1994, Gorelick et al decide to tweak it, and now it has become part of the problem. I think I\u2019m starting to understand… and this guy Tamm just happened to be in that shop. I do not know how long Mr. Tamm worked at DoJ but he received an award in 2000, which means he was a holdover from the prior administration.\u2019 So the bottom line is the guy that the justice department is investigating for leaking to the New York Times about the warrantless wiretap program trying to sabotage it is a guy that\u2019s a holdover from the Clinton administration. It\u2019s precisely what we\u2019ve all thought, is it not? These people infesting all these places, CIA, DoJ, Pentagon, you name it. It\u2019s great to see the Bush administration in action on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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