Remember,the liberal that took it upon himself to reveal a secret program to stop terrorist attacks during a time of war did not do it for “The Constitution”,he did it because he is a political hack that didn’t like Bush.

Tamm admitted that he did not fully know what the program did when he went to the press instead of following chain of command:
http://patterico.com/2008/12/14/leaker-of-nsa-eavesdropping-program-revealed-shocka-hes-a-big-bush-hater/#more-19609

(via patterico)

And Isikoff’s story reinforces my view strongly. Because the article (together with other research I have done on Tamm, set forth below) shows him to be an anti-Bush partisan who didn’t even know the details of the program, but notified reporters in part because of an anti-Bush bias, and a disagreement with other actions by the Bush Administration, some of which were indisputably legal. Isikoff tells us:
Tamm concedes he was also motivated in part by his anger at other Bush-administration policies at the Justice Department, including its aggressive pursuit of death-penalty cases and the legal justifications for “enhanced” interrogation techniques that many believe are tantamount to torture.

But even if his motives were bad, at least he was disclosing something that he knew to be illegal . . . right? Wrong. For all he knew, the program was perfectly legal — because he didn’t really know anything about it:
But, he insists, he divulged no “sources and methods” that might compromise national security when he spoke to the Times. He told reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen nothing about the operational details of the NSA program because he didn’t know them, he says. He had never been “read into,” or briefed, on the details of the program. All he knew was that a domestic surveillance program existed, and it “didn’t smell right.”

Wow!!
disclosing classified information that is being used to thwart terrorist attacks because he wanted to score political points against Bush.

WHERE HAVE I HEARD THIS BEFORE??:

Democrats Mull Politicizing Iraq War Intelligence
Wednesday, November 05, 2003

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102206,00.htmlget_a(300,250,“frame1″);

Among other things, the memo recommends that Democrats “prepare to launch an investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the [Senate] majority. We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the administration’s use of intelligence at any time — but we can only do so once … the best time would probably be next year.”
The last paragraph of the memo reads, “Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public’s concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq.”

democrats selling out their country for political advancement.
“YES WE CAN”

Of course programs they yelled and screamed about like this
NSA wiretapping program were so terrible,just ripping up the
Constitution for crying out loud,that they drew a line in the sand….AND VOTED FOR IT AGAIN!(with immunity for the telecoms)

Congress backs FISA, hands victory to Bush
Bill eases eavesdropping rules
S.A. Miller (Contact)
Thursday, July 10, 2008
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/10/congress-backs-fisa-hands-victory-to-bush/?page=1

Ending more than a year of wrangling between the White House and the Democrat-led Congress over modernizing the 30-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the measure lets the government intercept foreign calls without court approval and gives phone companies legal immunity for aiding the administration’s warrantless wiretap program enacted after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The 69-28 Senate vote that sent the bill to the president’s desk divided Democrats and spurred criticism of the party’s likely presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, for switching his position to support the bill.

Bush was right.

Baxter Greene on December 22, 2008 at 10:12 PM