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General News 4/16/2009 at 11:35 AM EDT H3'ed 4/16/09

DOJ Whistleblower Defends Decision to Leak Bush Spy Program In Light of NSA Law Breaking

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NYT is reporting the NSA has been intercepting private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress. Thomas Tamm, the whistleblower in the spy operation, called the paper from a subway pay phone and revealed the existence of the Bush's secret domestic surveillance program. Democracy Now! interview video.

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"Rob Kall has certainly acquired the firsthand experiences and knowledge gained through interviews to deliver some interesting insights about the "bottom-up" information revolution. Whereas the old 'top-down' systems created stove-pipes and excessive secrecy that blocked information sharing and led to the 'failure to connect the dots' before 9-11, the bottom-up approach should be the main fix. Kall's concept would seem to interface equally well with the founding fathers' idealism in setting forth their democratic theory of governance as with the realism that makes the multi-sourced, bottom-up Wikipedia work. As someone who shares my support of both government and corporate whistleblowing -- which is nothing more than encouraging greater horizontal sharing of information, I commend Rob Kall's important work on this topic."

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