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• Wednesday, January 7, 2009 08:08 PM

  @Plumb Bob

  In general, FBI or other government harassment involves a bit more than one's sentence for a crime one is convicted of. And Mr. Tamm is not convicted, or even tried yet.

  In the case of Matthew Diaz, Mr. Diaz has made comments that perhaps he deserved his sentence because while he believes it was the right thing to do to inform the world about who was at Guantanamo, he might have gone about it in a better, more legal, manner. But his sentence was 6 months, and what he has been through, call it punishment or just harassment and misery, is much more than that.

  So maybe we should ask you: Is what Mr. Tamm is going through a fair implementation of the rule of law?

  Furthermore, people here, in general have asked for the investigation and prosecution (or previously impeachment and trial) of Bush and others. That's a perfectly fair thing to ask for given the public evidence. They are now asking for fairness for Mr. Tamm. As has already been mentioned, it isn't clear that classification of a crime is legal in the first place, and it is certainly not the case that classification is legal for the purposes of political coverage. So it isn't clear that Mr. Tamm has committed a crime. Where is the contradiction between asking for fairness under the law with Mr. Bush, i.e. an investigation and possible prosecution, and asking for fairness under the law for Mr. Tamm -- federal employee whistleblower protection at the very least?

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