Seeking any news on John Wheeler lll

lily0107 · Jan 25, 2011

Unable to post links as of yet. There seems to be a news blackout on this one. Thank you for any news from non-woo sites. lily

JCM · Jan 25, 2011

lily0107 said:
There seems to be a news blackout on this one.

Video titles are as I found them

Authorities Have NO SUSPECTS For The Murder Of John Wheeler

Murdered Bush Aide John Wheeler Appeared Disoriented

Murdered Bush Aide Was An Expert In Chemical & Biological Warfare & Had Highest Security Clearances

Thank you for any news from non-woo sites

Sorry all I had was Fox haha

JCM · Jan 25, 2011

4 page bio on John P Wheeler III is currently available at Second Line of Defense

From Redacted News

Wheeler, a West Point graduate, former Army officer, and lawyer, served under Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne until Wynne and Air Force chief of staff General T. Michael Moseley. Wynne and Moseley were fired by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on June 5, 2008, over a breakdown in the security of nuclear weapons under Air Force control, particularly at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. Wheeler left his Air Force position in June 2008, the same month Wynne and Moseley were fired. After leaving the Pentagon, Wheeler took a job with MITRE Corporation.

While assisting the Secretary of the Air Force, Wheeler was primarily tasked with "standing up" Cyberspace Forces and providing Precision Strike technology and Real Time Streaming Video targeting links U.S. ground combat troops. It was one such targeting video from Baghdad that was among Wikileaks's first major discloures of U.S. classified information that led to charges that the U.S. was indiscriminantly killing civilians in Iraq.

Wheeler was also known to be a strong opponent of the use of biological weapons by the United States. Wheeler was last seen on an Amtrak train from Washington to Wilmington on December 28. Wheeler was also chairman of the fund that raised money to build the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC. In that role, Wheeler had a testy relationship with one of the major funders of the project, former independent presidential candidate H. Ross Perot. While serving as director of the Vietnam Veteran's Leadership Foundation, Wheeler was also special counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission durung the 1980s.

According to various Washington Post reports from the time, on November 4, 1983, Wheeler filed a criminal complaint with the Montgomery County Police Department against WDVM [which is now WUSA] Channel 9 investigative reporter Carlton Sherwood for illegally taping a conversation between himself and Wheeler at Wheeler's home in Bethesda, Maryland. Sherwood, like Wheeler, served in Vietnam. However, Sherwood began investigating for Channel 9 where most of the $9 million raised for the Vietnam memorial by Wheeler and memorial fund president Jan Scruggs was spent. Sherwood was arrested by Montgomery County police on November 7, 1983. Channel 9's news management maintained that two audits of the fund were less-than-detailed. In 1984, WDVM retracted its investigative series on the "financial propriety" of the memorial fund and apologized for the story. Sherwood later went to CNN as a special assignments reporter and The Washington Times and he was active in the "Swift Boat Veterans" criticism leveled against 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam combat record.

Wheeler, as special assistant to Wynne, would have known about the dual nuclear chain-of-command established by Vice President Dick Cheney, bypassing the Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, that resulted in a spate of nuclear surety and security incidents during 2007 and 2008.

REX REDUX

On August 24, 2007, three B-52s operating from Barksdale flew a training exercise called REX REDUX, officially billed as a commemoration of a 1938 B-17 flight directed at the Italian luxury liner SS Rex. The exercise, personally ordered by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley, was actually testing an Israeli-developed imaging and targeting pod called LITENING II on a U.S. Navy contracted merchant vessel, the USNS Bobo, in the Atlantic east of Bermuda and several targets of opportunity along the planes' flight paths through the southern United States.

REX REDUX also involved assets of the Air Force's embryonic Cyber Command in Washington and Barksdale.

Four days later, on August 30, a Barksdale-based B-52 flew six nuclear warhead tipped AGM-129 advanced cruise missiles from Minot to Barksdale. The incident was later called a "mistake" by Air Force officials. However, three high-ranking Air Force officers leaked the incident to the Air Force Times.

Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne, a key member of the rival chain-of-command, rewarded his loyalists in Barksdale by announcing the base had been selected as the preliminary headquarters for the Air Force Cyber Command. Wynne made his announcement at a Shreveport gambling casino. Wynne, according to a CNN report, advocated the testing of nonlethal weapons, like high-power microwave weapons, against American citizens. Wynne said, 'If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation.' . . .

While working for Wynne, Wheeler helped formulate the Pentagon's cyber-war policy which ultimately resulted in the creation of the US Cyber Command in 2009. In that position, he worked with Lani Kass, the ex-Israeli Air Force major who now advises the chairman of the Joint Chiefs on policy. Wheeler was opposed to co-locating the US Cyber Command with the National Security Agency. However, NSA director General Keith Alexander now wears both hats -- NSA director and commander of the US Cyber Command -- at his two Fort Meade, Maryland headquarters. The June 25, 2009, Washington Times reported that Wheeler favored putting the Cyber Command headquarters in "Texas or California or Colorado or North Carolina."

MITRE Ptech Links

MITRE was one of the business partners of computer company Ptech, when it came out in December 2002, that Ptech (Quincy, Massachuseets) was secretly owned by terror finance suspect Yassin al-Kadi , one of 12 Saudi businessmen accused of funneling millions of dollars to terror organisations run by Bin Laden.

Below is from where I got the fox clips

JCM · Jan 25, 2011

lily0107 said:
Thank you for any news from non-woo sites

Found some

CBS Philly

Video Released In Murder Mystery Of Delaware War Vet
Reported By: Robin Rieger; Todd Quinones; Steve Beck, CBS 3
WILMINGTON, Del. (CBS) – Eyewitness News has obtained exclusive surveillance video of a former presidential aide that was taken two days before his body was found dumped in a Delaware landfill. The body of John Wheeler III was found in the Cherry Island landfill in Wilmington on New Year’s Eve. The video shows a man that appears to be Wheeler entering the lobby of a parking garage at 5th and King Streets in Wilmington on December 29.
An employee of the parking garage said Wheeler look disheveled and said he was looking for his car. The employee also said his right shoe, which appeared to be broken, was in his right hand. “From the way his shoe looked, I would say that it looked like somebody done something to him,” the worker told Eyewitness News. The video then shows the man getting on an elevator and walking around for 20 minutes. After that, he talked to a supervisor before he was escorted out the pedestrian door. Investigators said Wheeler was last seen at 10th and Orange Streets in Wilmington around 3:30 p.m. on December 30.
A day later, police were called after Wheeler’s body was dumped out of a garbage truck into the Cherry Island landfill. Investigators said Wheeler’s car was found in its normal parking location in a garage across from the Wilmington train station. “We do know that he was scheduled to take a train from Washington, DC to the Wilmington train station on December 28th. We’re not certain whether or not he was on that train,” Lt. Mark Farrall of the Newark Police Department explained. Farrall says they tracked the trash to locations along College Square and East Main Street. “We are checking surveillance for anybody who may have been in the area around the dumpsters at the time he would have been dumped.” Investigators are re-tracing the garbage truck’s trips to 10 different dumpsters on Friday morning. Police have also searched Wheeler’s New Castle home where he lived with his wife.
Wheeler was a US Army captain in the Vietnam War, and led the committee that built the memorial to veterans of that conflict on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Wheeler, 66, had served under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush, and was a special assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force during President George W. Bush’s second term.Investigators have not revealed a cause of death.
Newark, Del. police are taking anonymous tips through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333, and say a reward may be available for information that leads them to a suspect.

Examiner

U.S. Army veteran, MADD supporter, a regular at the Pentagon, former Securities and Exchange Commission insider...the list goes on and one about the esteemed--now deceased--John P, Wheeler III. But as much as is known about the man who got things done; no one knows who killed him and left his body in a dumpster in Newark after Christmas.
His last known communication is with fellow decades old friend James Fallows, who appears to have the most information about John P. Wheeler, except maybe his wife, who was traveling at the time of his disappearance.
Fallows, a journalist at the Atlantic Magazine takes offense to those who would label his friend a mere Bush aide, and undoubtedly the numerous entities like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and those behind the effort for the building of the Vietnam Veteran Memorial would do the same, as John P. Wheeler III was a man of many interests, talents and passions too numerous to put under one heading or one president.
John Wheeler's neighbors--there is actually only one may who play prominently into this story--all shed more light on the murder of the man relegated at the end of his death to a dumpster.
One, Jeanne Thomas, a neighbor around the corner from Wheeler's home, knew him because he rented her storage space in his old barn behind his home.
"He was wonderful. We're just shocked. He was very humble," the Courier Post reported.
Wheeler's second neighbor, an elderly man of 85 named Robert Meadus described the death of John Wheeler as "exceedingly weird. WTOP FM Radio also reported Meadus saying, "The more you think about it, the more implausible it becomes...It's a Perry Mason thing for sure."
John Wheeler's third neighbor--actually a husband and wife, Frank and Reginia Marini--got their own unwelcome surprise this week: a smoke bomb thrown into their home on Tuesday.
Click here to see what the FBI turned up about that!
But it is Frank and Reginia Marini who are garnering the most attention, as John Wheeler and his wife Katherine Klyce sued the Marini's in 2009 due to their attempt to build a house that, inevitably, would block the Wheelers' view of the Delaware River from their own home.
Firefighters are investigating the smoke bomb, but no damage has been reported, and there is not evidence at this time that the incident bears on the Wheeler murder. (Update: That has now changed - Click here to see how).
In addition the Marini's home across from the Wheeler's is still not complete.
Wheeler's last neighbor, and the one who has the most to share about the week surrounding his death, is Ron Roark.
John's neighbor Ron heard loud noise emminating from John's television during Christmas week, and it wasn't the usual occasional program, as Roark says: it was so loud as to be disturbing...and it was continuous for days.
Click here for more on what John Wheeler's neighbor Roark said
Delaware law enforcement aren't saying how John P. Wheeler III died, but they are denying his home was the crime scene. However, according to WTOP FM Radio, two wooden chairs in the Wheeler's kitchen had yellow crime scene tape stretched across them--and several wooden floorboards near the two chairs were missing.
This could indicate that John P. Wheeler took that Amtrak train and actually made it home. He might also have had an unexpected guest who felt noise was called for as he searched for something buried in the kitchen--and left John Wheeler tied to a chair.
Police have not indicated how John Wheeler died, thus it is not know if torture was part of that death. But unusually loud television noise is often used to mask the sounds of activity others are not meant to hear in the criminal world, and John P. Wheeler did die by foul play.

Delaware Online

About 3:30 p.m. Thursday, John P. Wheeler III, 66, was seen in Wilmington in the area of 10th and Orange streets by a member of the public, said Newark police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall. Police were able to verify the tipster's information, but Farrall could not say how.
Newark police returned Monday to the Cherry Island Landfill in Wilmington, where Wheeler's body was found at 10 a.m. Friday after falling out of a trash truck. Farrall said that the crime scene has not yet been located. Should investigators find that Wheeler was killed in Wilmington, then the investigation will be turned over to Wilmington police to investigate, and Newark detectives will assist in their investigation. “Because of his background, we have been in contact with the FBI, but it remains our investigation,” Farrall said today. Farrall said that Wheeler's "cars are all accounted for" and not part of the investigation. Wheeler had a prominent role in getting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built in the 1980s and worked in the last three Republican presidential administrations.
Earlier Story:Victim was Vietnam War vet; police release new photo, statement from family
A Newark police crime-scene unit was inside Wheeler's home at 108 W. Third St. in New Castle all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, according to neighbor Ron Roark. By Monday morning, the crime-scene tape had been taken down.
At this point ... we're still trying to locate where the crime occurred," Farrall said Monday.
Detectives also had not yet pinpointed the trash bin on the east side of Newark into which Wheeler's body was dumped, Farrall said. Tracing the trash truck driver's route, police determined Wheeler's body could have been dumped in any of 10 trash bins.
The cause of Wheeler’s death is awaiting toxicology results and further forensic testing, Carl Kanefsky, spokesman for the state Department of Health and Social Service, said today.
Roark, who lives next door to Wheeler's home in a circa-1900 duplex at Third and South streets, said Monday he had met Wheeler only once and rarely saw him. But for four days around Christmas, Roark and his family heard a loud television in Wheeler's home that was constantly on, but no one appeared to be home, Roark said. "It was so loud, we could hear it through the walls, and we found that strange," Roark said.
Because Wheeler and his wife, Katherine Klyce, worked in Washington and New York, they were frequently away from home. Records show Wheeler and Klyce were established residents and registered to vote in Delaware. "But they were never home," said Roark, who has lived next door to Wheeler for seven months. Klyce, who owns a Cambodian silk company based in New York, did not return phone calls or e-mails Monday, and her whereabouts are unknown. The family released a short statement Monday evening through Newark police.
"As you must appreciate, this is a tragic time for the family. We are grieving our loss. Please understand that the family has no further comment at this time. We trust that everyone will respect the family's privacy," the statement said.
Wheeler was known in New Castle for his failed efforts to stop construction of a 2 1/2-story house across the street from his home along Battery Park. He had sued to stop Frank and Regina Marini from building, arguing the structure would block his view of the park and the Delaware River. The Marinis' home is currently under construction, but Wheeler and Klyce still have a lawsuit pending in Delaware Chancery Court to stop the project, said attorney Bayard Marin.
"He was the kind of guy who was not subject to fear, of anything," Marin said Monday. A 1966 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Wheeler later earned degrees from the Harvard Business School and Yale Law School. He worked in a staff position while stationed in Vietnam as a U.S. Army officer in 1969 and 1970, according to his biography on a defense contractor's website. Though he never saw combat, Wheeler was profoundly affected by the war, according to friends and colleagues.
In 1979, Wheeler got in touch with Jan C. Scruggs, a Vietnam veteran who started the initiative to build a memorial on the National Mall in Washington. With the assistance of some of Wheeler's business associates and politically savvy classmates from Harvard Business School, Wheeler was instrumental in getting Congress to approve construction, Scruggs said. "It really haunted him, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was the perfect project to give something back," said Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. "He had a really ongoing interest in healing the wounds of Vietnam for the veterans and for his generation." Wheeler spent his career in and out of government, working as an attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission in the early 1980s, and helping President Ronald Reagan create the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program. He also founded the Earth Conservation Corps for President George H.W. Bush.
Wheeler was chairman and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving from 1985 to 1987, according to the organization.
"Mothers Against Drunk Driving is saddened to hear of John Wheeler's death. John was a tremendous public servant and an important part of MADD's early years, during which great strides were made to change our culture's view of drunk driving," the organization said Monday in a statement. Wheeler was an assistant to the secretary of the Air Force during the last three years of George W. Bush's presidency.
Most recently, Wheeler was a consultant to a defense contractor and had been advocating for the return of ROTC programs to the campuses of Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Stanford universities.
The middle part of Wheeler's life was chronicled in author Rick Atkinson's 1989 book "The Long Gray Line," which followed the lives of Wheeler and two West Point classmates after the war.
In all of his endeavors, getting his generation to reconcile over Vietnam remained his life mission, according to James Fallows, a writer at The Atlantic magazine who collaborated with Wheeler over three decades.
Fallows published an obituary column about Wheeler on The Atlantic's website Monday, calling his friend a "complicated man of very intense (and sometimes changeable) friendships, passions, and causes."
"Here's somebody who had very great privileges from all of these high-end institutions ... and he used almost all of them for causes that he cared about, which were mainly healing the social, emotional and political after-effects of the Vietnam War," Fallows said in an interview.

WTOP FM Radio

Slain defense expert changed clothes before death
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - A slain defense expert changed clothes between when he was videotaped in a parking garage and another appearance on surveillance footage the next night, police said Friday. He was found dead in a Delaware landfill the day after the second video was taken.
The new description of ex-Pentagon official John P. Wheeler III adds another piece to the puzzling circumstances surrounding his death.
Surveillance video captured the 66-year-old New Castle resident walking away from the Nemours office building in downtown Wilmington around 8:40 p.m. Dec. 30, wearing dark pants and a dark blue sweatshirt with the hood up, said Lt. Mark Farrall of the Newark police department.
The previous night, Wheeler wore a dark business suit and dress shirt in surveillance video from a downtown Wilmington parking garage.
Farrall declined to say how Wheeler's body was dressed when it was found New Year's Eve morning in a load of trash collected from a string of garbage bins in Newark.
The state medical examiner has ruled the case a homicide, but the cause of death is pending toxicology tests.
On both nights before he died, witnesses reported that Wheeler seemed confused and disoriented. He told the parking garage attendant he had been robbed of his briefcase, and he refused offers of help from people inside the Nemours building.
A longtime friend, attorney Arthur Schulcz of Vienna, Va., said Friday that Wheeler posted cogent comments online shortly after 5 p.m. Dec. 28. He said Wheeler had written in typically spirited fashion on a U.S. Mililtary Academy alumni forum about the corrupting influence of NCAA football.
"NCAA is all about football money with platitudes-window dressing about values. To Hell with the NCAA and its corrupting Money Game," Wheeler wrote.
Schulcz said other West Point classmates told him Wheeler didn't respond to their e-mails Dec. 29.
"They thought it was unusual because Jack was normally very prompt about responding," Schulcz said.
Wheeler's family issued a statement Friday thanking police and well-wishers but asking for privacy.
Wheeler was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, Harvard Business School and Yale law. His 45 years in and out of government service included a key role in establishing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; work on cyber, biological and chemical warfare issues; insider trading investigations for the Securities and Exchange Commission; and the first chairmanship of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Courier Post Online

NPR

JCM · Jan 25, 2011

Lily did you find any other links?

lily0107 · Jan 27, 2011

working on it

JCM said:
Lily did you find any other links?

Thank you JCM for the links. Am interested in your thoughts and those of others here.

New blog posts are in MSNBC technology & science (I am still too new to be allowed to paste links). Gordon Duff posted in Veterans Today with quote from Wheeler's colleague, Lt General McIerney who wants further investigation. "Deafening silence". odd

lily0107 · Jan 27, 2011

Radell Smith

JCM said:
Lily did you find any other links?

Radell Smith from the Examiner seems to be all over this.

lily0107 · Jan 29, 2011

Today on CNN Justice: "Medical examiner: Pentagon official died after assault" ...duh

JCM · Jan 30, 2011

lily0107 said:
Today on CNN Justice: "Medical examiner: Pentagon official died after assault" ...duh

News is entertainment and propaganda. Thinking anything else is acting like journalistic integrity still exists. It's interesting that there is a lack of spin...

Orphia Nay · Jan 30, 2011

JCM said:
News is entertainment and propaganda. Thinking anything else is acting like journalistic integrity still exists. It's interesting that there is a lack of spin...

There's been a lot of spin and speculation from conspiracy websites. (I googled this story when lily first posted.)

There was a distinct lack of spin and speculation from registered news sites. Gives me hope for the media yet.

Now that a cause of death has been determined, registered news sites are posting the facts, sans speculation.

Lily, here's a couple of links since you can't post them.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/29/john-wheeler-died-from-blunt-force-trauma-medical-examiner-sa/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/us/29brfs-Landfill.html

I'm mildly curious about what the conspiretards are going to say.

Orphia Nay · Jan 30, 2011

Here's a link to one of Radell Smith's Examiner articles.
http://www.examiner.com/criminal-pr...eath-cause-announcement-me-and-police-at-odds

I'd take what's being said with a grain of salt.

Delaware Medical Examiner's procedures say they release documents to all interested parties upon conclusion of their investigation. I don't think it's up to the police to release that information.

Juniversal · Jan 30, 2011

JCM said:
News is entertainment and propaganda. Thinking anything else is acting like journalistic integrity still exists. It's interesting that there is a lack of spin...

To be fair most local news stations and national network News shows are fairly well balanced. People just give greater credence to the large cable news networks due to the inherent bias they tend to have and their talking head commentators.

lily0107 · Jan 30, 2011

Thank you for the links Orphia. I'm waiting for the news of a funeral service with appropriate honors. and Juni, I wish you were right

Brainster · Jan 30, 2011

lily0107 said:
Thank you JCM for the links. Am interested in your thoughts and those of others here.

New blog posts are in MSNBC technology & science (I am still too new to be allowed to paste links). Gordon Duff posted in Veterans Today with quote from Wheeler's colleague, Lt General McIerney who wants further investigation. "Deafening silence". odd

Gordon Duff and Veterans Today? :eye-poppi

JCM · Feb 6, 2011

Juniversal said:
To be fair most local news stations and national network News shows are fairly underfunded

fix'd
They are lapdog's to corporate money. Have you read what happened to the local fox affiliates trying to do a report on hormone tainted milk? Well balanced it was not

lily0107 · Feb 27, 2011

Still no spin

JCM said:
News is entertainment and propaganda. Thinking anything else is acting like journalistic integrity still exists. It's interesting that there is a lack of spin...

I guess he wasn't sexy enough. I just read about the cremation. Still very odd: http://www.delawareonline.com/artic...1103/Wheeler-will-buried-Arlington-late-April

lily0107 · Feb 27, 2011

and (just) now a tipped-over plant and an open window: http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011110222006 linked through Topix RE: USMA News

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