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Blog comments lead Feds to raid ex-justice department lawyer in spy leak investigation?

August 6, 2007

Potential liability arising out of lawyers leaving blog comments may have reached a new high if this one proves to be true.

Per Wired, some ‘Righty bloggers’ went to work upon Newsweek reporting this weekend of FBI agents raiding the home of former Justice Department lawyer Thomas Tamm as part of an investigation into how the New York Times learned about the government’s secret wiretapping program. The bloggers quickly discovered that “Tamm had donated to Democrats in 2004 and that several blog