Los Alamos Employee Gets a Beat Down (Literally)
CNN:

A Los Alamos lab whistle-blower scheduled to testify before Congress was badly beaten in an attack outside a Santa Fe bar.

Tommy Hook was in a hospital recovering from a fractured jaw and other injuries, his wife, Susan Hook, said Monday.

Hook's wife and his lawyer believe the attack was designed to keep him quiet.

Susan Hook said the assailants told her husband during the attack early Sunday that "if you know what's good for you, you'll keep your mouth shut."

Tommy Hook has a pending lawsuit against the University of California alleging whistle-blower retaliation. He had been scheduled to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee later this month about alleged financial irregularities at the nuclear weapons lab...

More information in the article about the details of the incident, and a picture of the victim looking substantially worse for the wear. For more information on possible intimidation against whisteblowers at the lab, see this post on Tommy Hook and Chuck Montano from Politech. For a round up of recent details about this case and links to other information, see this blog post at Defense Tech.

Something like this seems too crazy to be true. I can't imagine that some lab or UC employee actually ordered that someone suing them should be jumped. With the Feds investigating, I assume we'll hear more about the details of what happened.
[Thanks to CalStuff bro E.W. for the tip.]Email This Post!