3 Attacks kill one scandal reporter, beat another, and a witness

David E. Rosenbaum spent his long newspaper career unraveling the lies and scandals of Washington, from Watergate to Iran-Contra to Samuel Alito's defense of illegally spying on Americans.

The veteran reporter was attacked Friday night by two men on the street near his home in a wealthy Northwest D.C. neighborhood where crime is unknown.

The men escaped in a black sedan after smashing Rosenbaum's skull. He died at Howard University Hospital on Sunday.
Just Two Months Ago ...

On November 8, there was a similarly mysterious attack in the area.

Emilia DiSanto, a chief investigator on the Senate's finance committee, was prominently involved in the unraveling of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dirty deals.

She drove to her suburban Virginia home across the river from the Capitol. A man was waiting in the dark. He wore black clothes, black gloves and a black hat. He beat her so savagely with a baseball bat that it took nine staples to close up her head again.

He took nothing, and fled when people heard her screams. The crime was never solved.

And in June, a Los Alamos whistleblower was lured to a fake meeting with informants just before he was to testify for Congress.

Tommy Hook was horribly beaten by "three or four" assailants in a parking lot. Again, they focused on the head.

"Mr. Hook was hospitalized in an emergency room with severe trauma to his face and head, including a fractured jaw, and a herniated disk," the Project on Government Oversight announced after the attack. "He is heavily medicated today and unable to speak to the media."

Or to Congressional investigators

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