{"id":23084,"date":"2011-04-26T18:16:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T22:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23084"},"modified":"2011-04-26T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T22:17:09","slug":"todays-big-fat-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23084","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s big fat surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, it&#8217;s not surprising at all; the Justice Department has decided that they won&#8217;t charge the Department of Justice lawyer who leaked to the media about the Bush Administration&#8217;s warrantless &#8220;eavesdropping&#8221; program. (<a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_DOMESTIC_SPYING_LEAK?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2011-04-26-13-53-28\">AP\/Stars &#038; Stripes link<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The department informed Thomas Tamm&#8217;s attorneys that he will not be prosecuted for the leak that then-President George W. Bush called a breach of national security.<\/p>\n<p>Tamm has said he called The New York Times about the program because it &#8220;didn&#8217;t smell right&#8221; and he thought the public had a right to know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, who really expected this Justice Department to prosecute someone who helped to smear the Bush Administration and endangered our National Security. It&#8217;s funny, but when I was read into the security program no one mentioned to me that there was an expiration clause on my clearance if I thought something didn&#8217;t smell right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, it&#8217;s not surprising at all; the Justice Department has decided that they won&#8217;t charge the &hellip; <a title=\"Today&#8217;s big fat surprise\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23084\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today&#8217;s big fat surprise<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}