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Michael Hastings Investigation Fears Fuel Wild Conspiracy Theories
The Huffington Post | By Jack Mirkinson Posted: 06/20/2013 11:59 am EDT | Updated: 06/20/2013 12:02 pm EDT
The late Michael Hastings had been worried that he was under investigation, his editor told New York magazine on Thursday.
Hastings' death in a Los Angeles car crash has sparked multiple conspiracy theories, most of which center around the idea that Hastings was sabotaged in some way because he often reported on sensitive national security topics. So far, no real evidence has been presented to back up any of the claims.
What does appear to be true is that Hastings thought he was being surveilled. On Wednesday night, Wikileaks claimed that Hastings had contacted one of its attorneys, saying that the FBI was investigating him. Speaking to New York's Joe Coscarelli, Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith, who was Hastings' boss in the last year of his life, acknowledged that Hastings had been telling his friends the same story.
"Before his death, Michael told a number of his friends and colleagues that he was concerned that he was under investigation," Smith said.
Cenk Uygur, host of "The Young Turks" and a friend of Hastings', told a local Los Angeles station that he had been concerned about the journalist.
Hastings, he said, had been "a nervous wreck."
Even with all of this, there's still been no concrete or credible link that could tie Hastings' fears to his death. As Gawker's Max Read put it, " All journalists have reason to believe they are being, at the very least, monitored."
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Well...he destroyed the career of the man that killed our way to victory in Iraq. Stan had alot of shaddy badasses in his crew who lost alot when he got shitcanned. These guys were both military and civilian and that because of who they worked for, operated outside the chain of command. They did what they wanted. That all ended and they had built up resentment with the rest of the fobbits and beaurcrats. Plus Stan was very popular in JSOC, went on missions with them while he was in charge...maybe somebody figured enough time had passed. Does that sound like Hollywood...sure except things have kinda turned Hollywood overseas. The shit we can, especially the JSOC dudes. Its kinda like when Jonnie Chochran said the color of justice is green, the color of war is green as well. We have the best toys, the best training and our guys can do some crazy shit.
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Michael Hastings researching Jill Kelley case before death
LATimes ^ | June 20, 2013 | Brian Bennett
Posted on 06/20/2013 12:29:44 PM PDT by maggief
WASHINGTON – During the weeks before he was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles, reporter Michael Hastings was researching a story about a privacy lawsuit brought by Florida socialite Jill Kelley against the Department of Defense and the FBI.
Hastings, 33, was scheduled to meet with a representative of Kelley next week in Los Angeles to discuss the case, according to a person close to Kelley. Hastings wrote for Rolling Stone and the website BuzzFeed.
Kelley alleges that military officials and the FBI leaked her name to the media to discredit her after she reported receiving a stream of emails that were traced to Paula Broadwell, a biographer of former CIA director David H. Petraeus, according to a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., on June 3.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
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Yeah - real coincidence ::) ::) ::)
http://ktla.com/2013/06/21/exclusive-hastings-sent-colleagues-email-hours-before-crash/#axzz2WsH9HK6m
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i think its funny how liberals now all of a sudden have no time to entertain conspiracy theories.
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Why is it that when thinking people refuse to accept an illogical premise they have been neatly presented with, an illogical premise full of holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through, ...they are called conspiracy theorists?
FFS... If the government is going to lie to us, is it too much to ask that these lies make sense?
Is it too much to ask that the lies follow the laws of physics, or at least have the slightest ring of plausibility?
Is that too much to ask? I can suspend disbelief in a movie theatre without any issues, but tell me that a case of spontaneous combustion occurs in a vehicle... that will cause an engine to fly 400 yards down the road is really stretching it. It's almost as bad as telling me that burning jet fuel will pulverize concrete to a fine dust, ...or that you smoked marijuana, ...but didn't inhale. C'mon already! ::). ::)
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Why is it that when thinking people refuse to accept an illogical premise they have been neatly presented with, an illogical premise full of holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through, ...they are called conspiracy theorists?
FFS... If the government is going to lie to us, is it too much to ask that these lies make sense?
Is it too much to ask that the lies follow the laws of physics, or at least have the slightest ring of plausibility?
Is that too much to ask? I can suspend disbelief in a movie theatre without any issues, but tell me that a case of spontaneous combustion occurs in a vehicle... that will cause an engine to fly 400 yards down the road is really stretching it. It's almost as bad as telling me that burning jet fuel will pulverize concrete to a fine dust, ...or that you smoked marijuana, ...but didn't inhale. C'mon already! ::). ::)
This is ironic.