A tale of irony: "Tell me if you can spot the terrorist in this story"

[ProSense]

Looking For a Leaker

Priorities: The Attorney General apologized for 'creating confusion'

Newsweek

Aug. 13, 2007 issue - The controversy over President Bush's warrantless surveillance program took another surprise turn last week when a team of FBI agents, armed with a classified search warrant, raided the suburban Washington home of a former Justice Department lawyer. The lawyer, Thomas M. Tamm, previously worked in Justice's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR)—the supersecret unit that oversees surveillance of terrorist and espionage targets. The agents seized Tamm's desktop computer, two of his children's laptops and a cache of personal files. Tamm and his lawyer, Paul Kemp, declined any comment. So did the FBI. But two legal sources who asked not to be identified talking about an ongoing case told NEWSWEEK the raid was related to a Justice criminal probe into who leaked details of the warrantless eavesdropping program to the news media. The raid appears to be the first significant development in the probe since The New York Times reported in December 2005 that Bush had authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on the international phone calls and e-mails of U.S. residents without court warrants. (At the time, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said of the leak: "This is really hurting national security; this has really hurt our country.")

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Here is how your FISA will be used...

Tell me if you can spot the terrorist in this story:

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Now why do you think they needed a "classified search warrant?" Think about it. Why would the search of a "target's" home be classified? Perhaps what they find might be, but why the search itself? Because they don't want you to know that they are going after American citizens. K? And tell me why the need for a raid, as though the suspect was selling drugs and guns out of the back of his car? Does that not appear to be a bit of overkill? Or is someone sending a message and also retaliating against an American citizen? Yes, the press is by far one of the leading targets of the FISA Absolute Power bill, because it is designed to chill sources.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. In that pic he looks like

he's taking a leak.

Which he is, figuratively, on all of us.

[ProSense]

2. Kick! n/t