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Thomas Tamm (born 1952) is a former attorney in the United States Department of Justice Office of Intelligence Policy and Review during the period in 2004 when senior Justice officials fought against the widening scope of warrantless NSA surveillance that consisted of eavesdropping on U.S. citizens. He was an anonymous whistleblower to The New York Times, making the initial disclosure regarding the issue.

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The provision was crafted after the Bush administration's secret warrantless surveillance program, dubbed Stellar Wind, was disclosed to The New York Times by whistleblower and former Department of Justice prosecutor Thomas Tamm in 2005. 'We're having a debate where the intelligence agencies are ...
DC Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton Fox Won't Let Whistleblower Lawyer Lynne Bernabei Go ... But Hamilton Fox has chosen to focus significant resources on a whistleblower lawyer — Lynne Bernabei — whose client, former in-house General Electric lawyer Adriana Koeck, blew the whistle on an alleged ...

Spokespeople for the Justice Department and the FBI declined to comment on whether any leak investigations were ongoing, but Trump indicated they were. .... Former Justice Department lawyer Thomas Tamm appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 2008, confirming that he was a source for the New York ...
As a Lawyer for the Justice Department's Intelligence Policy and Review unit, Thomas Tamm violated professional conduct rules for disclosing to The New York Times "confidences" and "secrets," the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded. (PDF). As part of his Justice Department ...
WASHINGTON — A District of Columbia bar committee has agreed to a deal that would let a former Justice Department lawyer keep his law license even though he said he was one of the sources for a 2005 article in The New York Times about the National Security Agency's program of wiretapping without ...
Thomas Tamm stepped forward as the whistleblower responsible for exposing Bush administration warrantless wiretapping in a December 2008 Newsweek ... Obama had criticized the surveillance program, and the Justice Department in 2011 announced it would not bring criminal charges against Tamm.

The DC Disciplinary Counsel — previously known as the DC Bar Counsel — is on the attack against whistleblower lawyers. ... The Disciplinary Counsel has filed charges against prominent Washington whistleblower lawyer Lynne Bernabei and former Justice Department attorney Thomas Tamm.
Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department attorney who said he talked to the press about the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program in the mid-2000's, is facing ethics charges that could potentially threaten his ability to practice law. On Tuesday, the District of Columbia Office of ...
A whistleblower who sparked intense public debate about warrantless surveillance nearly a decade before Edward Snowden now faces ethics charges that ... Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department attorney, told reporters in 2004 about the Bush administration bypassing standard legal procedure for ...
The D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel — the legal body responsible for overseeing the D.C. Bar's professional rules — has filed ethics charges against Thomas Tamm, the former Justice Department lawyer who contacted the New York Times about President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program in ...
But Hamilton Fox has chosen to focus significant resources on a whistleblower lawyer — Lynne Bernabei — whose client, former in-house ...
The Justice Department lawyer who disclosed the secret and warrantless ... Thomas Tamm violated professional conduct rules for disclosing to The New ... of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower.
WASHINGTON — A District of Columbia bar committee has agreed to a deal that would let a former Justice Department lawyer keep his law ...
Thomas Tamm stepped forward as the whistleblower responsible for ... had criticized the surveillance program, and the Justice Department in ...
And whistleblower lawyers are not happy about it. ... “Like Thomas Tamm, I blew the whistle as a Justice Department attorney,” Radack said.
Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department attorney who said he talked to the press about the National Security Agency's warrantless ...
Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department attorney who said he talked to the press about the National Security Agency's warrantless ...

Thomas Tamm exposed the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Fellow Justice Department whistleblower Jesselyn ...
Almost 12 Years After Calling a Reporter, DOJ Whistleblower Slapped ... against Thomas Tamm, the former Justice Department lawyer who ...
Thomas Tamm, the DOJ attorney who told the New York Times about the ... for Snowden to become a fellow NSA whistleblower, said Tamm.
Thomas Tamm, the DOJ attorney who told the New York Times about the ... for Snowden to become a fellow NSA whistleblower, said Tamm.
The idea of lawlessness at the Justice Department angered him. .... When Thomas Tamm was a toddler, he crawled around Hoover's desk ...
Former Justice Department lawyer Thomas Tamm appeared on the cover of ... to criticism from First Amendment and whistleblower advocates.
Thomas Tamm, a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who faced disciplinary ... Tamm resigned from the Justice Department that year.
WASHINGTON — A District of Columbia bar committee has agreed to a deal that would let a former Justice Department lawyer keep his law ...
Thomas Tamm stepped forward as the whistleblower responsible for ... had criticized the surveillance program, and the Justice Department in ...
Now, the whistleblower bar is organizing to push back at what they see as an ... “Like Thomas Tamm, I blew the whistle as a Justice Department ...
Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department attorney who said he talked to the press about the National Security Agency's warrantless ...
Almost 12 Years After Calling a Reporter, DOJ Whistleblower Slapped ... against Thomas Tamm, the former Justice Department lawyer who ...
Thomas Tamm exposed the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Fellow Justice Department whistleblower Jesselyn ...
Former Justice Department lawyer Thomas Tamm appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 2008, confirming that he was a source for the New York Times in its disclosure of President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program.
For example, Thomas Andrews Drake - a former senior executive of the U.S. NSA was also a proclaimed whistleblower who was charged with ten violations of the Espionage Act.
A former Justice Department lawyer has been censured for telling a New York Times reporter about the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretap program.
As a Lawyer for the Justice Department's Intelligence Policy and Review unit, Thomas Tamm violated professional conduct rules for disclosing to The New York Times "confidences" and "secrets," the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ...
A Washington, D.C., ethics committee has recommended public censure for a former Justice Department lawyer who leaked information about the government's warrantless wiretap program.
A Washington, D.C., ethics committee has recommended public censure for a former Justice Department lawyer who leaked information about the government's warrantless wiretap program.
WASHINGTON - A District of Columbia bar committee has agreed to a deal that would let a former Justice Department lawyer keep his law license even though he said he was one of the sources for a 2005 article in The New York Times about the National ...
Thomas Tamm, a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who helped expose warrantless domestic surveillance during the George W. Bush administration, has agreed to accept a public censure to resolve ethics charges against him, according to papers filed ...
A former Justice Department attorney has agreed to receive a public censure from the D.C. Court of Appeals for exposing to The New York Times a warrantless wiretapping program in 2004.
Thomas Tamm, a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who helped expose warrantless domestic surveillance during the George W. Bush administration, has agreed to accept a public censure to resolve ethics charges against him, according to papers filed ...
A former Justice Department attorney has agreed to receive a public censure from the D.C. Court of Appeals for exposing to The New York Times a warrantless wiretapping program in 2004.
Thomas Tamm, a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer who helped expose a George W. Bush administration domestic spying program, calls his leak to the press an "appropriate and permissible" action that did not violate attorney ethics rules.
... pushing back against attacks by the DC Disciplinary Counsel, formerly known as the DC Bar Counsel, which recently filed charges against prominent Washington whistleblower lawyer Lynne Bernabei and former Justice Department attorney Thomas Tamm.
The Disciplinary Counsel has filed charges against prominent Washington whistleblower lawyer Lynne Bernabei and former Justice Department attorney Thomas Tamm. The Disciplinary Counsel brought charges in June 2014 against Bernabei and Notre ...
Even The Huffington Post headlined "Obama Whistleblower Prosecution Leads To Chilling Effect On Press." They mention the Marine officer Franz Gayl (inadequate protection against IED's in Iraq); project manager for Lockheed Martin Michael DeKort ...
The tip-off for the story by Jim Risen and Eric Lichtblau came from Justice Department lawyer, Thomas Tamm [pictured left].
The role of the whistleblower tends to be that of scapegoat and sacrificial lamb. Someone has to ... The tip-off for the story by Jim Risen and Eric Lichtblau came from Justice Department lawyer, Thomas Tamm. The reaction ... A weak observation is made ...
Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department attorney who said he talked to the press about the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program in the mid-2000's, is facing ethics charges that could potentially threaten his ability to practice law.
Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department attorney, told reporters in 2004 about the Bush administration bypassing standard legal procedure for intercepting Americans' international phone calls and emails, and publicly outed himself weeks before ...
The D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel - the legal body responsible for overseeing the D.C. Bar's professional rules - has filed ethics charges against Thomas Tamm, the former Justice Department lawyer who contacted the New York Times about ...


 

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