Bush FBI sent 18 armored agents to search my house, wiretap whistleblower says

Bush FBI sent 18 armored agents to search my house, wiretap whistleblower says:

"Bush FBI sent 18 armored agents to search my house, wiretap whistleblower says
John Byrne
Raw Story
Friday, June 5, 2009

The Bush Administration’s FBI sent 18 agents in body armor to the home of a man who revealed details of the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program, according to a little-noticed account of the whistleblower published Thursday.

Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department lawyer in the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, revealed details of the wiretapping program to the New York Times in 2004. In 2007, FBI agents raided his Potomac, Maryland home.

Tamm wasn’t there. His college-aged son, wife and young daughter were — but their father had never told them of his leak to the Times.

“They asked me questions like ‘Are there any secret rooms or compartments in the house’?” Terry Tamm, his son, told Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff last December. “Or did we have a safe? They asked us if any New York Times reporters had been to the house. We had no idea why any of this was happening.”

Tamm spoke Thursday at the final panel of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference. He said the agents who raided his home were well-armed."