Hey DUer's-this is the Tommy Thompson thread!

[bobthedrummer]

Let's see what we can come up with on the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

He hired the numero uno anthrax attack suspect imho Jerome Hauer from SAIC on 9-10-01.

After the next day's attacks on WTC and Pentagon, but well in advance of the anthrax attacks, Tommy Thompson and Jerome Hauer promoted the use of I.G. Farben's spin-off company Bayer's antidote for anthrax Cipro.

Tommy Thompson bragged about his negotiating skills in a Bayer deal for 300 million doses of Cipro as innocent US Postal Service employees were being infected in HOT ZONES.

Tommy Thompson put Jerome Hauer in charge of US biodefense.

Then there is Tommy Thompson's eugenicist pal Charles Murray (The Bell Curve) that Tommy hired when Governor of Wisconsin to "end welfare as we know it"-Thompson and Murray came up with what eventually became the federally adopted model of welfare reform, the Wisconsin Works/W2 program.

What do you know about Tommy?

[madrchsod]

1. tommy was

responsible for doing nothing when the deer came down with "chronic wasting disease" thank`s to his connections with the game farms the disease spread thru the herds of northern il,thanks tommy. good to know you are watching over the health of the nation!!!!!!

[elfin]

2. An adulterer of long standing

Open secret among Wis. Rethugs - about Tommy's "girlfriends." This is anecdotal via friends connected to Rethug power structure in Wis. The only journalist to print it was Joel McNally in the Shepard Express, I believe, after he was let go from the Journal/Sentinel.

Tommy's wife is a VERY strong Catholic and altho they are friends, their marriage has been a sham.

[htuttle]

3. True

In addition to the long-running rumors about Thompson and his personal assistant, when he would go out of town, he would travel with her -- instead of his wife. Mrs. Thompson usually stayed up in Elroy as opposed to the Governor's mansion in Madison. I know this from my involvement in Madison's taxi industry for the last 14 years.

And then there's the rumors about Thompson's 'interest' in Catholics nuns. While unsubstantiated, almost every reporter in Madison has heard them over the last 10+ years...

[bobthedrummer]

8. Is Tommy Opus Dei?

[htuttle]

10. Google finds no statement that he is a member

But it seems that Opus Dei members often speak at the same Catholic functions that he does. That could be a result of his being governor at the time...not sure.

[bobthedrummer]

11. Thanx!

Interesting.

[htuttle]

4. Tommy and the road building contractors...

I don't have any links to hard evidence on this issue, but it has been pretty common knowledge that Thompson handed out the yearly road repair contracts to crony companies run by friends. I think the Isthmus did an expose on this at one point, and it seemed to be a very lucrative scam.

[Nadienne]

5. He's a good friend to the tobacco industry.

"This week, Thompson joined Attorney General James Doyle in agreeing to sign on to the latest proposed settlement with the tobacco industry. Under the deal, the state would receive $5.9 billion over 25 years from four cigarette manufacturers.

The proposal has come under criticism from some health advocates, who have said it provides too many legal protections to the tobacco industry and doesn't do enough to curb teen smoking."

from an article November 19, 1998 http://www.jsonline.com/news/Spice/1119spice.asp

[seemslikeadream]

6. Tommy is known by the company he keeps

Jerome M. Hauer
Assistant Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation
Associate Director, Center for Counterterrorism Technology & Analysis

Jerome M. Hauer, one of the nation's leading experts on biological and chemical terrorism, recently left his post as Director of New York City's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) to join Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Hauer, who served four years as the City's first OEM Director, will be SAIC's Assistant Vice President and Associate Director of Center for Counterterrorism Technology and Analysis.

During his tenure at OEM, Hauer was charged by the Mayor with coordinating the City's on-scene response to multi-agency emergencies. He was also given the responsibility of drafting the City's emergency response plans to natural and man-made events, including hurricanes and coastal flooding, as well as biological or chemical attacks.

Hauer has a Masters degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and over 20 years of experience in emergency management. He was recently selected to be one of six scientists to brief President Clinton on biological terrorism and has been asked by the World Health Organization to co-author a rewrite of its 1970 monograph on chemical and biological weapons. Hauer consults regularly with Scotland Yard and the Israeli military, and worked extensively with the Australian Government in its preparations for the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Hauer has served on the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine's Committee to Evaluate R&D Needs for Improved Civilian Medical Response to Chemical or Biological Terrorism Incidents, and is an advisor the United States Capitol Police and the United States Marine Corps' Chemical-Biological Incident Response Force (C-BIRF). Hauer is also a member of the Johns Hopkins Working Group on Civilian Bio Defense, and is an advisor to the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs.
more
http://iml.dartmouth.edu/ists/hauer.html

The former director of New York’s Office of Emergency Management on what’s being done at ‘Ground Zero’Newsweek Web ExclusiveSept. 14 - Following the 1993 terrorist attack at the World Trade Center, Jerome M. Hauer was named the first-ever director and commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) for the City of New York. The office was designated as the center that would coordinate all agencies in times of crisis, and create its systems and protocols.

THE OEM DIRECTS the city’s overall emergency-response planning, as well as specialized planning for response to chemical, biological and nuclear-related incidents. Hauer also directed the design and implementation of New York City’s state-of-the-art Emergency Operations Center situated on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center, a bunker that went unused in the Tuesday’s explosions because of its proximity to the disaster (WTC 7 collapsed later that day).
more
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3069634/


Terror: Who is Jerome "Jerry" Hauer?
Posted by: VALIS on Aug 25, 2002 - 02:17 AM


Jerome Hauer, Human Health Institute, is the man who put John O'Neill at the WTC and tipped the White House off to Cipro.
Very interesting stuff.....

"Very few cities at this point in time are prepared to manage the consequences of bio-terrorist attack."
Jerry Hauer in an interview with Eyewitness News, October 1, 2001

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_investigators_100101bioterror.html

In May 2002, Jerome Hauer became director of the federal Office of Public Health Preparedness (OPHP), succeeding Dr. D. A. Henderson from Johns Hopkins Institute.

Why is Jerome Hauer not making national news yet?

He's becoming famous on the Internet. Not only for Republicans, who appreciate his long fight against bioterrorism, which he started three to four years ago.

Hauer is also controversial among those who are able to connect the dots between his person and shady business deals in biopharmacy since 1998.

More interesting, he seems to have had prior knowledge about both so called terrorist-attacks: September 11th and Anthrax.

But many private investigators claim since months, he let the attacks happen on purpose to continue his career.

Is Hauer LIHOP suspect No.1?

He started to work for the NIH under Tommy Thompson on September 10, 2001 as an adviser on national security. On September 11th, he told the White House to take Cipro, the antibiotic that works against the anthrax virus, without bothering to reveal his warning to the American nation.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/living/health/3020501.hym

The watchdog group JudicialWatch decided to file a lawsuit against the NIH, but also against the FBI, CDC and the White House, for the same reason: Prior Knowledge.

It is not known how long Hauer worked at the NIH before Sept. 11, but we can confirm that he was working on Sept. 10.
http://www.lauriegarrett.com/wtc_day12.html

But things get really interesting when we consider that Jerome Hauer was also the man who in August 2001 arranged a new job for John O'Neill - the resigning chief of the FBI Terror Task Force - as head of security at the World Trade Center.

How did Hauer know that the Twin Towers would be so important?

We would like to ask John O' Neill, but there is one problem: O'Neill died in the towers on September 11th, one day after he started his job officially, according to the New Yorker.

Disturbingly, O'Neill has never been received the same hero status in the mass media as has been accorded to the fallen New York firefighters and police officers. His death has gone without the same fanfare. For 11 months his story went untold, with two big exceptions.

The two French intelligence specialists Brisard and Dasquie (see: http://intelligenceonline.fr) published an interview with O'Neill taken before his death in their book, "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth." And articles on O'Neill were also published in the New Yorker and New York Magazine. Last week, TIME magazine also tried to remember him, but left out the most important angles.

This should change immediately.

There is obviously a lot which has been hidden from us, but for what reason?

This might have something to do with the FBI HQ (O'Neill complained about them), but also with Jerome Hauer - who is a friend of the current prime anthrax suspect, Stephen Hatfill, who was working for the military anthrax program USAMRIID at Fort Detrick and Battelle, a huge pharmacy company with many ties to the CIA.

Hauer and Hatfill worked together at the SAIC's Center for Counterterrorism Technology and Analysis in 1999. The SAIC (Scientific Applications International Corp) later received also a huge BioDefense budget in autumn 2001.
http://www.saic.com/news/nov99/news11-30a-99.html - (Hauer)
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/455218p-3643441c.html - (Hatfill)

But first, more about Hauer:

In 1983, Hauer joined IBM where he was responsible for the company's Hazardous Materials Response and Crisis Management and Fire Safety programs. Hauer produced a series of hazardous materials training videos that earned him the International Film andTV Critics of New York Bronze award in 1986.

In the early 1990s, Hauer got his first contacts to military and biodefense.

Hauer received a master's degree in emergency medical services from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Then he became member of the Johns Hopkins Working Group on Civilian Bio Defense, where he wrote various articles about a possible bioterrorist attack.
http://iml.dartmouth.edu/ists/hauer.html

In 1998, he started working at the OEM (Office for Emergency Management) in New York.

In the same year, Hauer and anthrax suspect Hatfill both supported the CFR as experts in their respective fields. The CFR is an acronym for Council on Foreign Relations, one of the most important think-tanks advising the US government, as well as many other governments abroad.

CFR members include the Pentagon's top advisers, Richard Perle, Henry Kissinger, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, ex-CIA chief James Woolsey, biosciences specialist Joshua Lederberg, and many others.

On May 28, 1998, Hatfill and Hauer spoke together at the same CFR meeting about "Building a 'Biobomb': Terrorist Challenge"
http://www.cfr.org/public/resource.cgi?meet!102

Hatfill was at that time also Senior Research Associate at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (=USAMRIID)

Hauer seems to specialize in the art of holding down several different jobs at the same time. While he started to work for the NIH in September 2001, he remained a Managing Director at Kroll Associates - the official security and bodyguard company for all American presidents since World War II!

With Hauer's many sources of insider information (e.g. Kroll/President bodyguards) , it makes sense that he also knew about the CIA briefing for George Bush on August 6, 2001, about warnings of an imminent terrorist "attack with planes."

Hauer is still trying to save the world.

On November 6th, 2001 he participated in the "Independent Task Force on America's Response to Terrorism" at the CFR. Participants there included James J. Zogby (President of the Arab American Institute and Central Asian Enterprise Fund), Newton L. Gingrich (Chief Executive Officer, The Gingrich Group), Harold Brown (former secretary of defense and counselor at CSIS: the Center for Strategic and International Studies), Henry A. Kissinger (Senior Fellow in National Security and European Affairs), Richard C. Holbrooke (Counselor, CFR and Vice Chairman of Perseus, LLC) and Philip A. Odeen (Executive Vice President, Washington Operations of TRW, Inc. and CEO of Reynolds + Reynolds, Dayton).

Their agenda, eight weeks after the attack of Sept. 11, was strange indeed:
http://www.cfr.org/Public/publications/PubDiplom_TF.html

more
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1086&mode=mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

[bobthedrummer]

7. Yeah-that's Jerome Hauer--anthrax suspect number one in my book.

Thanx, seemslikeadream:hi:

[hang a left]

17. This link is dead. Do you have another.

http://www.cfr.org/Public/publications/PubDiplom_TF.htm...



Thank you in advance. And I appreciate all of your hard work. I read all of your stuff. I just wish I could retain it all. So many players, so few brain cells left.

[seemslikeadream]

20. Thanks so much

for the kind words, liberalnproud. Sorry about the links, they're Council on Foreign Relations so maybe they got tired of us looking at their stuff. I'll see if I can find them somewhere else.

[bobthedrummer]

9. Tommy's DHHS can classify information-they have already.

They got that authority AFTER THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS.

[seemslikeadream]

12. Ideology subverting Science in US Department of Health and Human Services

21 October - Washington DC - 12 US Members of Congress express Concern over Ideology subverting Science in US Department of Health and Human Services
Twelve leading members of the US congress have written to Tommy Thompson, US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HSS) over what they perceive as ideology subverting scientific decision-making in the HSS. The members of Congress claim that over the past few months, a series of troubling reports have demonstrated that scientific information is being removed from government hosted websites and being replaced by faith-based information. In addition, they point to key nominations in the Food and Drug Administration as being based on the candidate's ideological beliefs and the use of financial audits to harass NGOs which do not adhere to the Administration's ideological point of view. They have requested precise clarification on all these points from the Secretary.
http://www.iepfpd.org/e_news_2002.htm

[bobthedrummer]

13. The State of Wisconsin suffered under his privatization schemes

and corruption for 14 years.
We were noted for being progressive prior to Thompson's era.

[seemslikeadream]

14. Tommy Thompson Stacks CDC For Lead Industry

Tommy Thompson Stacks CDC For Lead Industry
Email 8oct02

For the first time ever, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, has overruled the nominations of the CDC staff for membership on the CDC Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention (ACCLPP). Instead, Secretary Thompson has named his own appointees, including several people with close lead industry connections. The rejected nominations include Dr. Michael Weitzman, Pediatrician in Chief at Rochester General Hospital; Dr. Bruce Lanphear, Sloan Professor of Children's Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati; and Dr. Susan Klitzman, Associate Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College.

Historically the ACCLPP has provided science-based advice to inform CDC's policies to prevent lead poisoning and it has been instrumental in setting federal lead poisoning screening and prevention policies. The committee has always included subject-matter experts, researchers, and public health practitioners.

Secretary Thompson's appointees include several people who work directly for the lead industry. Dr. William Banner is a witness for the lead industry in the Rhode Island trial against lead paint manufacturers. In his deposition, he testified that blood lead levels between 70 and 100 do not pose a risk to children's health. Dr. Joyce Tsuji is a consultant whose corporate clients include ASARCO, DuPont, and King & Spaulding, a law firm representing several lead companies. She testified for industry in a class action lawsuit disputing the need for medical monitoring in the vicinity of a lead smelter. Dr. Kimberly Thompson is affiliated with the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis whose funders include 2 defendants in the Rhode Island case and 22 other companies that have released lead in the environment.

Rep. Edward Markey, Rep. Eddie Bernice-Johnson, and Rep. Waxman have written to Secretary Thompson opposing the unprecedented effort to stack the scientific advisory board with candidates with financial ties to the lead industry. Several scientists joined the Representatives in a news conference on October 8 to emphasize the importance of independent scientific advisors.
http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2002/Tommy-Thompson-Stacks-CDC8oct02.htm

:hi: bobthedrummer, sometimes it's enjoyable to dig in the dirt

[seemslikeadream]

15. Next president of the University of Wisconsin !!

Group trying to recruit Thompson for top UW System job
By JESSE GARZA
[email protected]
Posted: May 25, 2004
A campaign has been launched to recruit former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson to be the next president of the University of Wisconsin System, Milwaukee philanthropist Michael Cudahy confirmed Tuesday.


Cudahy is leading a group of Milwaukee-area business and civic leaders who plan to nominate Thompson for the job this week, Cudahy said when reached by telephone late Tuesday.

"I think Secretary Thompson is more than qualified for the job," Cudahy said. "The university could benefit tremendously from his leadership."

Cudahy said that Thompson said he was interested in the job after he was approached with the idea.

Thompson has indicated he will not serve another term in President Bush's cabinet after the November elections.

UW System President Katharine C. Lyall announced in February she would retire in summer.

A top aide to Gov. Jim Doyle said the governor had suggested he would not stand in the way of the appointment, WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) reported Tuesday.

Administration Secretary Marc Marotta said Doyle didn't "close the door, nor did he endorse" Thompson as the top administrator of the UW System, the station reported.

Thompson supporters said they would not have thrown Thompson's name up for consideration if Doyle had said no to the idea, according to WTMJ.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/may04/232174.asp

[Big Al from WI]

24. OK,

Just for the record, the University of Wisconsin hired a man named Kevin Reilly for that position, promoting him from within. Looking back on his days as governor (which constitute my entire life until 2002), I can say that he was not awful, except for education, which he enacted some crippling revenue caps that Doyle is afraid to even attempt to repeal (both houses of the Legislature are controlled by Republicans though, so he couldn't do that anyway.) The thing is, he seemed like a pretty nice guy outside of his policies, which is why people kept on voting for him.

Ironically, his brother Ed ran for governor as a Libertarian and got over 10% of the vote, which helped throw the election to Doyle. Mainly Ed got those votes based on name recognition as Tommy's brother- people were Republicans but people realized how awful Scott McCallum was, and voted for Ed as a protest vote.

[ewagner]

16. A lot of truth here.

...special deals to roadbuilders, Mr Bell-curve, and rumors about affairs and infidelity....

...but...

It was also rumored that Tommy wasn't exactly the brightest bear in the forest.....hence I don't think he was capable of master-minding anything.....

[sybylla]

18. Yeah, I always thought there was a power behind the throne

But no one ever really surfaced as the "brains" of the bunch except possibly WMC. I wouldn't be surprised to find their lobbyist sat at his dinner table at least once a week.

What surprised me most about his tenure was that no one ever called him on his drinking. Is he just an occasional binger or was our press so spineless that they ignored that elephant?

[htuttle]

19. I always thought James Klauser was sort of his 'brains' for awhile

James Klauser was Secretary of the Dept. of Administration, and I think he was Thompson's personal lawyer at some point.

He's a VP at Wisconsin Energy now.


on edit:

Oh, and he's a Nazi, too.

[ewagner]

22. You're right

I heard Klauser was running the show on several occassions.

on edit: Didn't Tommy appoint Owen Ayers as Sec'y of Transportation? Ayers was President of a huge Engineering firm that handled highway, airport and bridge work......

[bobthedrummer]

23. Tommy Thompson IS "The Man Who Sold The World" though

he is totally corrupt imo.
Therefore capable of anything for a buck:puke::grr::argh::nuke:

[seemslikeadream]

21. Someone has to be in charge of all the little earthquakes

Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) Turns Governors into Dictators

HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson is urging State legislatures to adopt the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, prepared by the Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This Act grants unprecedented and unchecked powers to the Governors of the 50 States. It can be downloaded from www.publichealthlaw.net.

It is likely that HHS will tie passage of the Act to billions of dollars in federal funding: the usual method of bribery/coercion to get States to pass legislation that would otherwise never be considered.

Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation said: "Tommy Thompson, whom I have considered a friend for thirty years, should be ashamed of himself for advocating this kind of Big Brother legislation. This is not the Tommy Thompson we knew as a four-term governor of Wisconsin."

HHS is using the 9/11 emergency as a pretext to rush passage of an Act that has been in the works for more than a year. Its main author, Lawrence O. Gostin, was a member of Clinton's Task Force on Health Care Reform, whose secret documents were exposed to public view as a result of the AAPS lawsuit (AAPS et al v. Hillary Rodham Clinton et al.)

He was a member of Working Group 17, Bioethics, of Cluster V, The Ethical Foundations of the New System, and also a member of the informal group promoting Single Payer. It is odd that Tommy Thompson should be urging adoption of a plan originating with the most extremist left wing of Clinton's Health Care Task Force.

This legislation is a serious threat to our civil liberties. Indeed, "this law treats American citizens as if they were the enemy," stated George Annas, chairman of the Health Law Department at the Boston University School of Public Health (San Francisco Chronicle, 11/25/01). It must be exposed to the light of day in the next month and a half.

"If protests are sufficient and if conservative legislators in state legislatures are properly alerted, perhaps there is a chance to beat back this monster," Weyrich said
http://www.mercola.com/2001/dec/26/mehpa.htm

HHS Secretary "Tommy" Thompson Needs to Be Told to Spend More Time with His Family
Didn't see the cost estimate until Christmas? Could a Cabinet Secretary possibly be so incurious? Didn't even try to control what his subordinates were doing? Could a Cabinet Secretary possibly be so self-effacing?

WSJ.com - White House Backs HHS Probe of Medicare-Bill Cost Estimate: ...the matter has taken on a new life because the administration projected in the budget it submitted to Congress last month that the 10-year cost of the bill would be $534 billion, instead of $395 billion estimate used in writing the legislation. Mr. Foster estimated in June that a version similar to what became law would cost $551 billion, according to a document subsequently obtained and released by House of Representatives Democrats.

"There seems to be a cloud over this department because of this. We have nothing to hide, so I want to make darn sure everything comes out," Mr. Thompson said.... Mr. Thompson said administration officials made clear that their financial assumptions about the legislation led to higher estimates. But he said he didn't see the final cost estimate until just before Christmas, a few weeks after President Bush signed the Medicare law.

Mr. Thompson said he never instructed Mr. Scully to prevent Mr. Foster from sharing his higher cost estimates with lawmakers, some of whom had said they wouldn't vote for legislation that cost more than $400 billion over 10 years.... The secretary placed much of the responsibility for the controversy on Mr. Scully, a voluble lawyer and former hospital trade-association executive known for his quick wit and sometimes impulsive comments. Mr. Thompson said he should have exercised more control over Mr. Scully. "But all of you know Tom Scully. Do you think that's possible?" Mr. Thompson said...
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/000486.html

The Tommy Thompson Myth: Thompson as Moderate
Despite his promise to present a "compassionate conservative" administration, George W. Bush has appointed overwhelmingly right-wing ideologues to his cabinet, not the least of which is Tommy Thompson, now Secretary of Health and Human Services, formerly Governor of Wisconsin. The Department of Health and Human Services directly affects women's health and reproductive services.

Thompson has made his reputation within the Republican Party as a moderate, but a look at his activities while Governor of Wisconsin shows otherwise.

Tommy Thompson has a record of anti-choice, anti-women activity. In 1997, he signed a far-reaching Wisconsin law that declared that fetus was a human being from the time of conception, and described abortion as a procedure meant to "kill a child." Supposedly, this was a so-called "partial birth" abortion ban, but in reality it applied to all abortions in the state. Mandatory life imprisonment was the penalty that doctors risked for performing any abortion - even in the first trimester - and women were leaving the state to get abortions. The law ultimately was declared unconstitutional.

Additionally, Thompson signed legislation prohibiting insurance provided through the Private Employer Health Care Purchasing Alliance (a voluntary program for private employers) from covering abortion services with only very narrow exemptions. He has signed legislation both requiring a 24-hour waiting period and a provision that women receive in-person, biased counseling that referred to an "unborn child." He has opposed clinic safety "buffer zones" that require demonstrators to stay at least 15 feet away from women's clinic entrances.

As Secretary of HHS, Thompson has vowed to take a "second look" at and review the FDA-approved RU-486, hoping to get FDA approval rescinded. RU 486 is a medical abortion for early pregnancies which has been used in Europe for many years, and which succeeded in American clinical trials and was released last year, giving women a nonsurgical option for ending early pregnancies. It is part of right-wing, anti-choice rhetoric that RU 486 has "dangers" to women in it, a claim not borne out by recent American or European clinical trials. According to Senator Hillary Clinton, "the evidence of the efficacy and safety of RU 486 is convincing, and I would be very concerned if a decision were made on political grounds instead of on medical or scientific grounds." Thompson's bias against RU 486 is shaped by his long-standing anti-choice attitude, not his concern for women's safety
http://www.wcla.org/01-spring/thompson.html