OpenTheGovernment.org Welcomes Decision to Drop Prosecution of Illegal Wiretapping Whistleblower

``OpenTheGovernment.org applauds the Obama Administration and the Department of Justice (DOJ) long overdue decision to drop the investigation of Thomas Tamm. In a meeting with President Obama on April 4, 2011, members of the OpenTheGovernment.org Steering Committee raised concerns about the prosecution of national security whistleblowers like Mr. Tamm, a former DOJ lawyer who revealed the existence of the US government's illegal wiretapping program... In 2004, Mr. Tamm told the New York Times about the existence of a wiretapping program in which the U.S. government, without warrants, intercepted calls and emails into and out of the U.S.''