THOMAS TAMM, YOU ARE A HERO.

New York Times' NSA Whistleblower Reveals Himself

It's been three years since The New York Times first broke the news of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, based on information provided by an anonymous source. Today the identity


I'll answer the question posed: NO! THIS MAN SHOULD /NOT/ BE PROSECUTED.

Why do we not have better whistleblower protections in this country? Why is it that the greatest acts of patriotism are considered treason?

Without Daniel Ellsberg we would never have known about the Pentagon Papers, crucial in ending the Vietnam War, as well as Nixon's career. Ellsberg was prosecuted for his heroism along with Mike Gravel who helped put these papers - which demonstrated government corruption - into the public record.

Without Thomas Tamm we would have never known about the government's far overreaching and ILLEGAL spying program. This man is a hero!

The reason that we are supposed to have a free press is to be a check on the government. Whistleblowers are critical within that. We are a free people! When corruption is evident within our government it is our RIGHT and our DUTY to expose it!

THOMAS TAMM, YOU ARE A HERO.

posse comitatus - preventing martial law

Wikileak: Homeland Security Planning

This link is a PDF on Wikileaks - a leaked official document regarding the homeland security measures at the RNC.

Groups involved in the security measures include ICE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Defense's Army Northern Command, and the NGA -
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA provides mapping tools and imagery intelligence that are obtained from the United State's military spy satellites which are controlled by the National Reconnaissance Office).

If NORTHCOMM was assisting in the planning was the military involved in crowd control strategies in violation of posse comitatus? Was military intelligence used to watch the protesters at the RNC? If so, that is A LITTLE TINY BIT illegal.

Wikileaks: Publishing leaks of sensitive government and corporate data

Wikileaks

Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors. Within one year of its December 2006 launch, its database had grown to more than 1.2 million documents.

Wang Dan, a leader of the Chinese democracy movement, was one of the most visible of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Wang Dan is on the Advisory Board of Wikileaks.


It was Jefferson who said "I have no fear for liberty, so long as the press remains free." Part of that is the protection of the whistle blower.