Los Alamos Whistleblower Beaten

Outside a Santa Fe, New Mexico bar, “[a] Los Alamos lab whistleblower scheduled to testify before Congress about alleged financial irregularities was badly beaten … an attack his wife and lawyer believe was designed to silence him,” reports the WaPo.

Background from MSNBC: “Tommy Hook [PHOTO] and another whistleblower sued the University of California in March, alleging that after they uncovered management failures, university and lab managers tried to make their jobs miserable so they would quit. Hook, a former internal auditor who now works at another job at the lab, had been scheduled to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee later this month.” MSNBC says he was left for dead outside.

Keith Olbermann fans: This is KO’s #1 story tonight.