Wow. Climb out on a limb, and watch it get sawn off…
An assault this week on an auditor from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico was not related to his status as a whistle-blower and prospective congressional witness, police in Santa Fe said Thursday.
Tommy Hook, who has alleged that millions of dollars were wasted at the lab, was severely beaten in the parking lot of a topless bar early Sunday. Hook said the attack was meant to silence him.
But police said Thursday that it appeared the incident began when Hook hit or bumped into a pedestrian in the parking lot with his car.
“Facts, evidence and information obtained led investigators to believe that the altercation involving Mr. Hook is an isolated incident and is in no way related to Mr. Hook’s whistle-blower status at the Los Alamos National Laboratories,” Santa Fe Deputy Police Chief Eric Johnson said in a statement.
THERE’S MORE: “Here’s our take on the Tommy Hook story as it stands now,” says lab watchdog Project on Government Oversight, whose Peter Stockton is in Santa Fe investigating the assault.
It should be no surprise that the police claim there is no evidence the assault had anything to do with Tommy’s whistleblowing. The Santa Fe police were initially sent in to investigate a bar fight, and thats all they have ever indicated they thought it was.
Yet it seems that the Santa Fe police have not adequately investigated what they have been told. For instance, they didnt get the phone records that would show whether or not Tommy received a call after 10 pm on Saturday night.
We find it interesting that the FBI is continuing to conduct interviews and obtaining the phone records, despite the police statement that there was no link to issues at Los Alamos.
Our questions remain: Did Tommy receive a call after 10 pm? Isn’t it an extraordinary coincidence that the attack happened at the bar where he was told to meet an anonymous source, three days before he was scheduled to meet with Congressional investigators?
You are the 10th blog that I’ve read on this and I have to admit I see ZERO evidence of a conspiracy. The best story is titled: “Los Alamos Whistle-Blower Blows It On Lap Dance” which I think sums it up. I know that you need to print both sides but come on. A tip leads him to a nudie bar?
http://independentsources.com/2005/06/10/table-dance-not-whistle-blowing-lead-to-beating/
This makes me very suspicious of everything else he’s said. If he lied about the strip club, can we believe his tales about financial mismanagement? A strip club at 2am indeed. r5T
Hmmm.
It’s entirely possible that this is part of a conspiracy. People tend to forget the vast amounts of money spent at Los Alamos. They also tend to forget the severe lack of controls and oversight at that facility that has allowed some incredible examples of embezzlment.
One person at Los Alamos stole over a million dollars. This sort of money can buy a lot of things, including a severe beating.
C’mon. The guy goes to a strip bar to cavort and gets beat up; not an entirely uncommon situation, especially if he tries to get too personal with the–ahem–entertainers.
So he has to make up something to explain to his wife what he was doing there. Easiest explanation: the plot against me.
I have no idea about any of the whistle-blowing allegations he made, but this sounds like an elaborate lie to tell his wife. Problem was it made headlines.
Does anyone know where Russell Crowe was when this guy got beaten up?
Nothing to see here — move along.….
Not a conspiracy to cover the the trail blah blah blah
yada yada yada
And if on the oft hand chance it is true — will you come back and post you were wrong or slink off to the nether regions of the net and not post here again?
I think thoust will opt for a hasty retreat if wrong.
Headzero:
I’m going away for most of the weekend. But, other than that puase, I’ll be posting all the news related to this case — both the stuff supporting Hooks story, and the reports opposing it.
nms
It COULD HAVE BEEN tied in with his work at Los Alamos. and should be investigated. But we shouldn’t jump to any conclusions.
The last time I went to a strip club, I tried to take one of the girls aside and fill her in on the government conspiracy involving the Pentagon, Abu Ghirab, BUUUUUSH!, and the Nazis.
The fascists must have agents everywhere, because before I knew it, a hit squad jumped me and threw me the most merciless beat down I’d ever gotten. They must have been standing there the whole time, watching me from the door…
Good grief, no great mystery here. The wife was out of town … he winds up at a titty bar well after bedtime.… Come on guys, doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes to unravel this great conundrum. I smelled BS as soon as I read this “news” the other day. Looks like Mr. Goody Two Shoes likes to frequent titty bars when the wife’s out of town, and he got caught. What this implies about his whistleblowing, I dunno, but if he was lying about the strip bar incident.….
One of the other pieces said he hit someone with his car on the way out of the parking lot. I didn’t get the details, but it sounds like he tried to hit and run and some bystanders or the guys buddies beat him mercilessly.
Any whistleblower who meets an anonymous caller in the wee hours at a strip club is a few pasties short of a…well, he just ain’t too smart.
you dont beat someone who is about to testify regarding hundreds of thousands of dollars lost. if you want to save yourself from prison, you kill them. what kind of wimpy conspiracy is this?
You don’t beat somebody up to keep them from talking as the investigation winds up; you would do it before they talked. This guy lied in saying how many beers he had had (it was 6 instead of 1), told police he had not hired a lap dancer when he had, told them he had arrived 2 hrs later than he had. The phone records cannot show he received the call because he was already at the bar. He carefully did not mention hitting a pedestrian when he told his story, but told that he was threatened if he did any more talking. What a bunch of mullarkey. Famous Last Words: I am a whistle blower at Los Alamos and you can’t touch me! This will be the last time he monkeys around with those 90 lb. scientists!
If I had visited a strip club and my wife found out about it, I think a trip to the hospital would be the best outcome that I could possibly hope for.
Sorry guys, if my husband went to a titty bar and got beat up, can’t imagine him inviting the entire national news media to take a look see whether he’s lying or not. That makes about ZERO sense. As for hitting pedestrians…well, I guess he must have hit a member of the Sopranos family because they beat the living bejesus out of him and then fled the scene of the crime. As for lap dances, who gives an F?
This is straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel (except it doesn’t take place in southern Florida …)
Obviously a CLASSIC setup.
The Santa Fe police are clearly implicated here also, although they may well be blameless. Cops never look too hard at this sort of thing, it would not pay them (for all sorts of reasons). Pressure can get applied by the most unlikely people to the mst unlikely people. Also, never underestimate the capacity of the public service and government to close ranks to
“handle” a leak source like this. They usually resort to scare tactics, as this is quite effective. Murders do get investigated, beatings do not. A beating is a much better “fit” to the cover story. It’s quite logical to me.
Poor guy…
Also, if 99.5% of personnel at Los Alamos are honest and reliable (a very very high figure), then over the years, a few people have done a few deals. It only takes one corporate criminal to do a deal. Los Alamos Labs would be the perfect place to do it because a: there’s lt s of MONEY in that place, b: most people there are very honest and straight (=naive) and so who’s going to do the detecting. The corporate crim got unlucky with this guy and poured some heat on him. The informant was a bit doey to go there, but this sort of thing happens all the time. Bottom line: TOTALLY BELIEVEABLE!
Why do it after he’s talked? Easy: PAYBACK…
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