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Title: Did Blog Comments Lead Feds to Raid Ex-Justice Lawyer in NSA Spy Leak Investigation? (RIGHT WING BLOGS INVOLVED?)
Source: Wired Blog Network
URL Source: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/did-blog-commen.html
Published: Aug 6, 2007
Author: Ryan Singel
Post Date: 2007-08-07 15:10:04 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 28

Did Blog Comments Lead Feds to Raid Ex-Justice Lawyer in NSA Spy Leak Investigation?

By Ryan Singel August 06, 2007 | 7:00:18 PMCategories: Surveillance

Newsweek reported this weekend that FBI agents raided the home of a former Justice Department lawyer Thomas Tamm as part of an investigation into how the New York Times learned about the government's secret wiretapping program. Righty bloggers quickly scoured the net, discovering that Tamm had donated to Democrats in 2004 and that several blog comments critical of the administration had been posted with his name attached.

One blogger at the Free Republic notes:

If it turns out that Thomas M. Tamm is the FISA leaker, then a good case could be made that [Bush Derangement Syndrome] postings on the web might have been his undoing. Ironically this would not be the first time a high government official illegally releasing top secret information revealed himself via web postings. Robert Hannsen, the FBI agent convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union and Russia, raised suspicions about himself when he posted explicit information about his sex life on Internet chat rooms. Perhaps this FISA leak case will be the second time that web postings would have been the undoing of a government official illegally releasing top secret information. In the case of Hannsen his motivation was sex, in the current FISA case it just might be irrational BDS that undid the leaker.

At least one person suggested to me that Tamm may be Mr. Blank, a regular commenter to the liberal Talking Points Memo blog who many believe is a former DOJ insider.

I'm not convinced that any judge would issue a search warrant, even in a national security case, simply for the kinds of posts that were actually done in Tamm's name (especially given that anyone could use his name to pass off posts). But then again, maybe the lack of discretion in blog comments sections did get Tamm a visit from the feds.

To which THREAT LEVEL can only say (of course, only to whistleblowers), practice safe commenting.

UPDATE: Jon Perr has a great left-right rundown, and I particularly love the link to AJ Strata's post which leads the reader through a couple of internet searches and then deep into a rabbit hole of Soros-funded conspiracies tied together with the last name Tamm.

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