Glenn Walp

Glenn Walp Bio :
Los Alamos National Laboratory: zero. Whistleblower: $1 million.

That’s the score after the University of California agreed
Wednesday to pay former lab investigator Glenn Walp nearly $1 million
for being wrongfully fired last year. The school manages Los Alamos on
behalf of the U.S. Energy Department.

But the out-??of-??court settlement was more than a personal
victory for Walp, a former Arizona state police chief hired to look
into allegations of fraud, corruption and lax security at the world’s
most important nuclear facility. Government watchdogs say the
settlement could encourage other potential whistleblowers to step
forward and speak their minds.

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FBI Stonewalled

In July, Walp hired Steven L. Doran, who also had an extensive
police background particularly in white-collar crime, to assist him.
After the whistleblowers brought the FBI in, Doran became the lab's
main point of contact for a joint lab-FBI investigation. But the FBI
quickly ran into obstacles as managers grew increasingly concerned that
the lab's reputation and image would be badly tarnished if the media
learned of the on-going scandal. Walp says he was told by Busboom that
the lab "is famous for sacrificing their children to protect their
image" and, in mid-July, Walp and Doran's contact with the FBI was
halted. They were told that, henceforth, any contact with the bureau
would be managed though the lab's chief counsel, Frank Dickson, who
then steered FBI agents to other, less knowledgeable investigators.

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Doran said Busboom told him in September that his "career would end" if
he damaged the University of California's "relationship with the FBI,
inspector general or U.S. attorney."

A few weeks later, Busboom ordered Walp and Doran off an important
fraud case, and told them to sever their relationship with the FBI.

When Doran and Walp told investigators from the Energy Department's
inspector general's office about all this in November, the pair was
fired, just about on the spot.

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In a case reminiscent of Walp and Doran's, investigators at Sandia
National Laboratories were told they were "on thin ice" after their
inquiries into security breaches went too far.

"It's a problem not just at Los Alamos, but at all of the sister
labs," Gwilliam continued. "There's a barricade mentality -- 'We're the
best and the brightest, leave us the hell alone.'"

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Walp, the lab's former head of the Office of Security Inquiries, was
fired in retaliation for documenting the national security breaches.

Mr. Walp's settlement with the University of California, which
manages Los Alamos, includes a $900,000 outright payment and three and
a half months of salary. In January 2003, the university reinstated
Walp and Doran to advise UC's president on oversight of its reform
efforts at the lab.