Richland, WA — Today a report was released, exposing crucial information behind the recent firing of Joe Huffman, a former senior cyber security scientist with high level clearance at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a government research facility.

“My gun rights activism got me a pink slip, and the truth is in the web logs,” says Joe Huffman, who was fired from his Senior Scientist position at PNNL on June 3, 2005, with no substantial explanation from his former employer.

Web logs — files that detail site visitor traffic to/from websites — expose in-depth activity from PNNL’s investigation team, revealing that, prior to firing Huffman, representatives from the company spent dozens of hours scouring Huffman’s personal websites, including sites run by his children and their friends. PNNL was particularly fixated upon Huffman’s site postings pertaining to firearms rights, as revealed by the company’s intense web activity on those pages from May 4 through June 3, the day he was fired.

Joe Huffman is the organizer of BoomerShoot, as well as a security expert, blogger, 2nd amendment activist and speaker. His firing from PNNL occurred under a veil of secrecy that even Joe has been unable to penetrate.

It appears from weblogs that it has something to do with his websites and his blog, but PNNL isn’t being very forthcoming. You can read the rest of his story at Joe’s new website at www.pnnl.info

It good to see him standing up for his rights. When you get fired you at least deserve to know the details. It looks to me like someone decided to go on a witch-hunt. They picked the wrong guy. It is also interesting to note that a major article in the NRA’s flagship publication, American Rifleman, concerns gun owners being fired from their jobs.