Copper thief got probation

A former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory worker was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $40,000 for stealing more than 40 tons of copper from his employers over a three-year period.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/24/feds-man-stole-43000-pounds-of-copper-over-three-years/amp/

A new fusion device at LANL

Los Alamos has a new crackpot fusion device!

https://www.newsweek.com/plasma-guns-fired-nuclear-fusion-1465550

Trump is going to build a wall in Colorado

Trump just gave away New Mexico to Mexico! and said that he is going to build a wall in Colorado!!! Mexico has nukes now! This changes everything. I know you have no idea that New Mexico is part of the United States but please it is not 1912 anymore.

Safety at LANL

Safety underpins LANL operator’s commitment to NM

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.abqjournal.com/1380768/safety-underpins-lanl-operators-commitment-to-nm-ex-nothing-is-more-important-than-the-safety-of-our-workforce-neighbors-and-the-environment.html/amp

Confirmed : Perry resigns.

"Energy Secretary Rick Perry tells Trump he plans to resign, sources say"

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/energy-secretary-perry-tells-trump-plans-resign

Rick Perry, one of the 3 amigos Oops!

"State Department official testifies White House wanted Rick Perry, 'amigos' to run Ukraine policy"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theweek.com/speedreads-amp/872078/state-department-official-testifies-white-house-wanted-rick-perry-amigos-run-ukraine-policy

Whistleblower retaliation lawsuit: the Rivera case

LAW OFFICES OF A. P. X. BOTHWELL

October 12, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FEDERAL COURTS MUST SAFEGUARD WHISTLEBLOWER'S RIGHTS,

SAN FRANCISCO LAWYER SAYS IN NUCLEAR WEAPONS LAB CASE 

(San Francisco, Oct. 12, 2019) -- Atty. Tony Bothwell today told the U.S. District Court 

for the Northern District of California that "the government must be required to protect 

whistleblowers [who] have the courage to disclose practices that harm workers, the public and the nation." Defending a nuclear weapons lab engineer against the Department of Energy, Bothwell added, "It is the proper role of the court to overturn decisions of the 

Executive Branch that otherwise obscure the truth, chill the workforce, and disserve the law"

The San Francisco attorney represents Anthony Rivera, who was fired by Lawrence 

Livermore National Security LLC in 2013 after he disclosed "serious safety violations" 

in the lab's High Explosives Test Facility and the Mechanical Engineering Division. A 

Department of Energy administrative judge in 2017 decided that the lab intentionally 

retaliated against Rivera for having blown the whistle on safety concerns. But the DOE judge also decided that the lab would have fired Rivera anyway because he told coworkers about being harassed by management following his safety complaints. 

Bothwell, in a motion for summary judgment filed with the federal court in Oakland, said 

the Constitution protects a Livermore lab employee's right to tell coworkers how he was treated by management. The First Amendment applies, he said, because the nuclear weapons lab performs "government functions" and is managed by a joint venture in which the University of California is the "founding partner." Thus Rivera's employer was a "state actor".

Bothwell was the public affairs director of the Livermore lab in the 1980s when he stopped the Physics Department from firing Hugh DeWitt, a physicist who often spoke publicly against U.S. nuclear weapons policy. Bothwell later resigned from the lab. As a lawyer for more than 20 years he has represented Livermore scientists, engineers, and security officers who have blown the whistle on unsafe practices

For more info, read plaintiff motion below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9eIrcyRIQxyYmFIQ0R6a0FOaVpUb204MXJNekNIbDNobTRN/view?usp=drivesdk