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2005-06-12 05:20:56 (273 weeks ago)
Posted By: Intellpuke
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It had been the worst of blind dates; the no-show. Eventually, just before 2 a.m., Tommy Hook conceded defeat and slunk away from the gaudy strip bar. As he traipsed across the neon-bathed parking lot of Cheeks nightclub, he would have wondered what became of his non-committal partner.


Hours earlier Hook, 52, had received a call from a fellow employee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory imploring him to head to the Santa Fe nightspot and hover by the bar. An excited, hushed voice had promised to corroborate Hook's explosive findings into massive financial irregularities at the birthplace of the nuclear bomb and proposed site for the Bush administration's new generation of atomic weapons.


Instead it is the brutal events that followed Hook's short walk that have plunged the top secret home of the U.S. weapons project into fresh controversy.


The attack was ferocious; a group of up to six men stomped on the head of Hook, a former internal auditor at Los Alamos, with such intensity that footprint marks were still visible on his swollen face days later. A witness claimed that without the intervention of the club's bouncer, Hook would have been murdered. His wife Susan later alleged that the assailants told her husband during the beating that "if you know what's good for you, you'll keep your mouth shut".


The attack last week came 48 hours before U.S. government investigators were scheduled to arrive at Hook's home and scrutinize audits detailing financial irregularities amounting to millions of taxpayer dollars at the New Mexico laboratory. Now he has been silenced.

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Re: Assault Of Nuclear Whistleblower Latest In Series Of Attacks
2005-06-12 20:25:04
It seems that the U.S. is intent on remaining the world's greatest superpower. The U.S., it appears, will lie, cheat and murder in order to increase its already impressive nuclear stockpile, while simultaneously bombing into oblivion any foreign regime even suspected of developing a nuclear program. 'American Brand Freedom' ? -- No thank you!

T. Neal

(A proud Aussie citizen, disgusted in you, me and US)
Re: Assault Of Nuclear Whistleblower Latest In Series Of Attacks
2005-06-14 14:57:26
What alternate universe is this from? Where is this "New Texas" where Los Alamos National Lab is supposed to be located? The last time I looked (and I happen to live right across the canyon from the lab), we're in New Mexico. As far as being in a remote location. that's relative. We're 35 mile from Santa Fe - out here in 'flyover' country about halfway between Dallas and Los Angeles. But we're real close to Albuquerque, and dang, they even have scheduled air service...



Be all that as it may, I don't think you guys should tie your knickers in a knot over this issue. There's a much higher probability that Tommy Hook has brushed up against a criminal financial ripoff at the lab than anything else; that is, this has to do with money and property, not anything nuclear. Would some thugs like to get into the nuclear black market by penetrating the lab or similar organizations? I suppose they might, if they're really exceptionally stupid, but there are much more attractive targets elsewhere.

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