Los Alamos Whistleblower Beaten - (horrendous)

NEWSMAX.COM ^ | JUNE 6, 2005 | CARL LIMBACHER & NewsMax Staff

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

>"We are looking into the allegations made by Mr. Hook," FBI Special Agent Elwell said. <

Allegations? So the FBI isn't sure that Mr. Hook was beaten to a bloody pulp? This goes beyond banging your head on a wall a couple of times to get attention.

[PhilDragoo]

Cheeks parking lot is no place to dally in the Sunday a.m.

The man was unruly in the VIP lounge on the one weekend when his wife and child were out of town.

He's not the first or last person to go down for the count at that venue; but he's the first to claim being there as a secret agent man--that's rich.

Notra Trulock, Code Name Kindred Spirit, Encounter, 2003 [ntrulock is a FReeper] relates the Wen Ho Lee saga, and Trulock's attempts to get the FBI to investigate.

Hook's misfortune has nothing to do with the lab's perennial antipathy to security measures abetted by Hazel O'Leary et al.

A longtime lab denizen (who recalls "ground-surfing" underground tests) finds the matter "fishy", specifically Hook's claim of meeting for a document dump at this locale.

It's a story that any husband in headlights would hype.

We await the FBI producing the person Hook was meeting.

[Hint: Why didn't Hook mention the lap dance?]

And yes, your face gets puffy like that--but I reserve my concern for the legitimate whistle blower, Notra Trulock, who couldn't get all this attention--and it wasn't a camp stove; it was Wen Ho Lee holding all our warhead designs and legacy codes on "disappearing" disks.

[Palladin]

I was glad to see that Dan Abrams featured this story on his program today. Bring this story out into the light and send those Los Alamos roaches scurrying for cover.

[DuncanWaring]

You left off the Mustang.

[CHARLITE]

"I was glad to see that Dan Abrams featured this story on his program today."

I was almost convinced by some other contributors to this thread, that this man simply got into a bar brawl, but after seeing Abrams' coverage, plus the interview with the wife, it looks like a very ugly (and dangerous) form of official government "hardball" for whistleblowers.

Thanks for your comment. Glad that you caught The Abrams Report on this topic.

Char :)

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

My bet it was the Chinese spies who don't want their free access stopped.

[delacoert]

The man was unruly in the VIP lounge on the one weekend when his wife and child were out of town.

This is exactly the sort of information I was expecting to hear.

What's your source?

[softwarecreator]

they are willing to kill to keep it. Must be quite a bundle

Maybe, but these people would kill anyone for a dollar.

Sickening what they did to this guy.

[softwarecreator]

So the FBI isn't sure that Mr. Hook was beaten to a bloody pulp?

No kidding.  What do they think happened?  He fell down the stairs ... a couple hundred times?

[softwarecreator]

Also, there would be less of a vigorous investigation for a beating as opposed to a missing person or a murder.

[BARLF]

O'Leary,wasn't that her name? Sec. Energy?

[PhilDragoo]

A number of witnesses called Jim Villanucci and Richard Eeds of the most popular talk show in the state on KKOB 770 AM Albuquerque on and off the air during the two hours devoted to the topic today 4:00 PM-6:00 PM Mountain.

Also, my underground test landsurfer from the lab found Hook's explanation "suspicious".

The fact that Hook is mentioned with Chuck Montano makes him a nut.

A whistleblower over camp stoves is beaten to silence him?

Or a fool in the VIP lounge made some errors of etiquette vis-a-vis a lap dance in the wee hours of Sunday morning resulting in yet one more Cheeks parking lot episode of COPS. . . .

[delacoert]

Also, my underground test landsurfer from the lab found Hook's explanation "suspicious".

LOL

My wierdshitameter instantly pegged too.

[delacoert]

...it looks like a very ugly (and dangerous) form of official government "hardball" for whistleblowers.

It's not that I am unwilling to consider the possibility that Hooks' beating was retribution, it's matter of believability.

A UCAL or Fed orchestrated conspiracy-to-send-a-message-to-whistleblowers story is harder to believe than a story about a pathetic drunk out of control during a lap dance.

Hooks' had already provided his scintilla of evidence. His appearance at a congressional hearing was all about publicity (making congressional investigators look like they were doing something). A pre-"testimony" assault on Hooks would just heighten attention. Why run the risk of having an investigation uncover a conspiracy? It's just not... proportionate.

[malia]

Remember what President Reagan said --- 86% - 88% of the time-----

[malia]

Yes it was Wen Ho Lee!

"___Shortly after a news story that implied he had given military secrets to China, he was arrested and accused of being a spy. Wen Ho Lee spent nine months in prison while the U.S. Department of Justice tried to prove a case against him. Eventually a plea bargain was reached and Lee was charged with one count of mishandling sensitive materials and released from prison."