better-dead-than-fed
06-27-2013, 02:41 PM
Thomas Tamm leaked classified NSA information to the New York Times, resulting in their 2006 story "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts" (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html). Tamm was never charged (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53718.html) with a crime.
Politico reported (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53718.html):
Former federal prosecutor Victoria Toensing said... "If the guy who came forward and said, ‘I admit it. I gave the information to The New York Times,’ is not going to be indicted, then no one is.... It’s perplexing why this case wasn’t pursued...."
According (http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/12/12/the-fed-who-blew-the-whistle.html) to Newsweek, Tamm "comes from a family of high-ranking FBI officials. During his childhood, he played under the desk of J. Edgar Hoover, and as an adult, he enjoyed a long and successful career as a prosecutor."
Why is Snowden being treated differently?
http://ablogonpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-is-snowden-different-from-tam.html
Politico reported (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53718.html):
Former federal prosecutor Victoria Toensing said... "If the guy who came forward and said, ‘I admit it. I gave the information to The New York Times,’ is not going to be indicted, then no one is.... It’s perplexing why this case wasn’t pursued...."
According (http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/12/12/the-fed-who-blew-the-whistle.html) to Newsweek, Tamm "comes from a family of high-ranking FBI officials. During his childhood, he played under the desk of J. Edgar Hoover, and as an adult, he enjoyed a long and successful career as a prosecutor."
Why is Snowden being treated differently?
http://ablogonpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-is-snowden-different-from-tam.html