Cheers,
knews hound
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Posted on 06/07/2005 1:41:31 AM PDT by joinedafterattack
Steve Doran helped unearth the case then got fired because, he says, management wanted a cover-up, not the truth.
(CBS) It was the most sensational of all the suspect purchases made with government credit cards. A custom black Mustang, charged by Los Alamos National Laboratory employee Lillian Anaya. After a year-long investigation, the New Mexico lab exonerated her, and even claims she's the victim.
But a CBS News investigation casts serious doubt on that story.
FBI documents show Anaya "denied any knowledge or involvement" with the car and said she "never heard of" the car company. When the FBI showed her records of calls and faxes between her office and the Mustang dealer, Anaya "could not offer any explanation reasonable or not."
So, as CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports, one was concocted for her by the University of California, which gets taxpayer money from the Energy Department to run the lab.
In a memo, a university attorney poses "a reasonable hypothesis ..." that Anaya was trying to buy lab equipment called "transducers," but dialed a wrong number and "did not realize she was actually speaking to ... the ... Mustang company," which then tricked her into ordering a car.
Upon hearing the explanation, former lab investigator Steve Doran says, "I literally started laughing. There's absolutely no way that their explanation holds water."
Steve Doran helped unearth the case then got fired because, he says, management wanted a cover-up, not the truth.
But no one was more surprised by the "wrong number" defense than the man who sold Anaya the Mustang.
"I talked to her probably on about five to seven occasions," says Tom Thompson, owner of AMP Performance.
He says Anaya knew exactly what she wanted, and it wasn't transducers.
"She wanted a late model Mustang black convertible, with like black leather interior," he says. "She wanted it loaded up with all the options and then she wanted to make it go fast."
CBS News has learned lab auditors flagged thousands more suspect purchases Anaya made as "attractive for personal use" or "unallowed."
Yet the lab declared her innocent and warmly welcomed her "back to the Los Alamos team."
Lab officials hoped closing the case would "restore the public's confidence" in the university's management of the lab. To some, it's done just the opposite. Congress now wants the Energy Department to explain why it swallowed the wrong number explanation, and take a new look at the case.
Bump
Here's a chance for CBS to start redeeming itself after the Rathergate fiasco. Let's see how far they'll take this investigation.
Dear Mr. University Attorney,
Stupid people go to jail every day. Being this stupid qualifies as "jail worthy". You should look into another career, because with this defense, you too are in danger of being "jail worthy" stupid.
And your browser's home page was set to this: http://www.shelbyamerican.com/
Cheers,
knews hound
http://knewshound.blogspot.com/
They'll probably run with it as long as they can blame everything on the Bush Administration. Once the Clinton dirt starts turning up, though, they'll drop it like a hot potato.
OTOH, they've got a lot less room to pull their normal antics with the beating of that whistleblower. That should guarantee close scrutiny of this story, though I expect we'll have to do our part in pushing it along. The MSM will doubtless try to bury the beating - too many of their corrupt leftist pals would get exposure they cannot afford to have if that story goes forward.
She probably does, but I doubt she's using it to buy their silence. She and the others probably think that if they just keep their mouths shut and hang together, their buds in the union, the Rat Party and the MSM will cover for them and make this whole thing go away.
And she may be right. Has any media outlet besides Fox and Newsmax even mentioned the beating of Tommy Hook?
She probably does, but I doubt she's using it to buy their silence. She and the others probably think that if they just keep their mouths shut and hang together, their buds in the union, the Rat Party and the MSM will cover for them and make this whole thing go away.
And she may be right. Has any media outlet besides Fox and Newsmax even mentioned the beating of Tommy Hook?
Chicoms.
Asian method--using feet to kick the head. You can see the shoe prints in the guy's skin, on the right side of his face.
Union thugs use bats.
Damn IBM's........:o)
So this is how North Korea got nukes ? They called Los Alamos and wanted to buy scrap metal and this Lillian Anaya thought she was talking to the US Navy and sold em a nuke instead ?
Well that's an honest mistake ........< /SARCASM>
Damn...
Hey were did YOU get that new mustang ?...........:o)
But I paid cash. LOL.
ping for later
That be the 300+ HP flavor isn't it ?
The FBI should be all over this case with warrants for arrest. Period.
Let's face it: The administration is more than willing to accept the excuse because this is embarrassing otherwise. It is shown that the lab has no control over the public's money when a stupid broad can order a CAR of all things!
Yeppers. Every cylinder has it's own coil, no less. A performance shop in NJ keeps trying to buy it off me - seems I have the only 5-speed MANUAL in VA. LOLOLOL
Oh, and I was challenged to a race at Capitol Speedway - by our FSO! heheheheheh
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