Holy shit (uh oh, there's go that peppered obscenity again). This is really creepy.
From DefenseTech.org (citing the Project on Government Oversight):
Mr. Hook had planned at the end of last week to meet an individual who claimed to have corroborating information about fraud at Los Alamos. That individual never attended the meeting. Late Saturday evening, someone who might have been posing as that individual called Mr. Hook and asked to meet with him at a bar in Santa Fe. He went to the bar and waited but that person never showed up. When Mr. Hook got into his car to leave, attackers pulled him out of the car and brutally assaulted him. The assailants threatened Mr. Hook to keep silent. A bouncer at the bar intervened and broke up the attack. Mr. Hook was hospitalized in an Emergency Room with severe trauma to his face and head, including a fractured jaw, and a herniated disk. He is heavily medicated today and unable to speak to the media.Los Alamos is known for being pretty vicious with whistleblowers.
And even creepier, this guy Hook was slated to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee this month. Interfering with a witness is against the law. Let's hope the GOP Congress does something about this.
