Ft. Hood Jihadi: Attorney receiving death threats???

That's the claim:

"Meanwhile, Hasan's lawyer, John P. Galligan of Belton, said Wednesday that he has received e-mails and some calls with what could be perceived as death threats.

“There were some of concern that my paralegal received here,” Galligan said. “I've asked that she pass them on to the local police and ask that they keep my place under surveillance.”

Some of the calls, Galligan said, ask, for example, “How could you do this? You ought to get what the other people got.” (Ed. Note: There is a certain symmetry to that way of thinking.)

“Sometimes you get kooks, but sometimes kooks do crazy things,” he said. (Ed. Note: You mean like your Islam-o-kook client????)

Galligan also said he and a military lawyer from Fort Hood, Maj. Christopher Martin, met with Hasan briefly for about half an hour on Monday, and they plan to meet with him again today. They plan to get an update on his condition.

“He was sufficiently coherent (Monday), but in that half hour period I explained to him how I was retained, and secured from him an acceptance of my continued representation.... I took (Martin) with me primarily to ensure that if Maj. Hasan decided that he didn't want me or just wanted a military lawyer, that lawyer would be present.”

Galligan said he did not know Hasan was visited by a psychiatrist. The Express-News observed Dr. Douglas P. Dionne, a psychiatrist at BAMC, visiting Hasan in the intensive care unit Tuesday evening. Dionne told the Express-News that he was “not at liberty to discuss that.”

“I'm thinking (the visit) was purely objectively medical as opposed to an ulterior purpose,” Galligan said. “I'm going to be following up on that.”

Galligan also said the Army hasn't filed any charges against his client, but it revoked Hasan's Leave/Pass policy privileges. Galligan said the move is a pre-trial restraint in the Army, and confines Hasan to BAMC.

Hasan remains under watch by armed civilian guards, and federal agents have occasionally come by to check on him, the Express-News observed. An entrance/exit to the ICU is cordoned off with yellow caution tape and signs on those entrance/exit doors instruct visitors to use other entrances to the ICU section.

More about Barrister Galligan:

Galligan has represented soldiers in other high-profile cases.

In 2005, he defended two soldiers at Fort Bliss charged in the beating death of Afghan detainees.

In 2007, he represented a Fort Hood master sergeant accused of failing to take precautions during a training exercise in which a soldier died.

Stay tuned.