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April 27, 2011

Justice Dept. Drops Investigation Of Domestic Wiretapping Whistleblower 
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The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly dropped its long-running
criminal investigation of a former Justice Department attorney who
admitted playing a role in exposing the National Security Agency's
warrantless domestic wiretapping program. The attorney, Thomas Tamm, has
admitted that he called the New York Times in 2005 to leak information
about the secret program. Tamm appeared on Democracy Now! in 2009.

Thomas Tamm, Attorney: “And I have been in law enforcement my entire
life. My family was in law enforcement. And I didn’t want to be
participating in something that might be illegal. So I actually went up
to the Hill to see if Congress—to try and find out whether Congress
knew about what was going on. And when I was told and warned that it’s
very dangerous to be a whistleblower and they would not confirm that
Congress had been briefed is when I decided to call the New York
Times.”