As the National Law Journal reports, someone is finally going to be held accountable for the shocking 2005 disclosure of the Bush administration’s unconstitutional, warrantless wiretapping program. But it’s not the people who authorized that illegal surveillance. It’s the guy who told the public about it.

Thomas Tamm, a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who leaked information to the press about warrantless domestic spying under President George W. Bush, is facing legal ethics charges in Washington.

In charging papers released on Tuesday, the Office of Disciplinary Counsel accused Tamm of violating local ethics rules when he went to a New York Times reporter—instead of his superiors at the Justice Department—in 2004 with concerns about the surveillance program.

Tamm left the Justice Department and works as a state public defender in Maryland, according to state bar records. He declined to comment on Tuesday. He’s represented by Paul Kemp of Ethridge, Quinn, Kemp, McAuliffe, Rowan & Hartinger and Michael Frisch, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. They were not immediately available for comment.