DOJ Won’t Prosecute Onetime Department Lawyer for Leaking Warrantless Wiretap Program Info
The Justice Department won’t prosecute one of its former lawyers who admitted he leaked information about the government’s warrantless wiretap program.
The lawyer, Thomas Tamm, was one of several sources for a Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times article about the secret wiretap program by the National Security Agency, report the New York Times, the Associated Press and Politico.
Tamm’s lawyer, Paul Kemp, told Politico he learned seven or eight months ago that the investigation of his client was over.
Tamm originally disclosed he was under investigation for the leak to Newsweek. During the probe, the magazine reported, officials “raided his house, hauled away personal possessions and grilled his wife, a teenage daughter and a grown son.”
After leaving the Justice Department, the magazine said in the December 2008 story, Tamm was more than $30,000 in debt and was doing occasional work involving wills and estates and handling some cases for the local public defender.
