Free Tamm & Pardon Diaz

Most of the suggestions President Obama gets are hard to juggle, since they involve big problems with lots of important political players.
But here's a couple easy ones, Mr. President--you can do the right thing twice, and it's very obvious what the right thing is in both cases.
Thomas Tamm & Matthew Diaz are two whistleblowers, recipients of Ridenhour Awards for their personal courage. Because of them, we know about illegal and un-Constitutional acts by the NSA and at Guantanamo.
Tamm needs to be freed up from the threat of prosecution once and for all.
Diaz should be pardoned, and his rights restored, as much as Presidents are allowed to do.
That's it. Easy calls. Two chances to do the right thing.
Here's a good link for each one, fyi:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/427914/thomas_tamm_an_american_hero
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/05/hbc-90000071

Comments

[MalleusMaleficarum]

What a good idea! This one's a no brainer. No president should run the risk of discouraging whistleblowers. That would be wrong. Purely and simply wrong. Pardoning whistlebllowers and refusing to prosecute them because they risked their careers to inform the American people is the only way to go for a president who is even slightly interested in upholding his or her oath of office.