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Friend: Michael Hastings Was Working on “Biggest Story Yet” About CIA


Sgt. Joe Biggs says journalist would never have driven at high speed

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
June 25, 2013
A friend of Michael Hastings told Fox News today that the Rolling Stone journalist was working on the “the biggest story yet” about the CIA before his suspicious death and that Hastings drove “like a grandma,” making it extremely out of character for him to be speeding in the early hours of the morning.


Sgt. Joe Biggs told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly that “something didn’t feel right” after Hastings sent a panicked email saying the authorities were on his tail, adding that the story of him driving at high speed in the early hours of the morning was completely out of character.

“His friends and family that know him, everyone says he drives like a grandma, so that right there doesn’t seem like something he’d be doing, there’s no way that he’d be acting erratic like that and driving out of control,” said Biggs, adding that “things don’t add up, there’s a lot of questions that need to be answered.”

Biggs said he had contacted Mercedes asking them if it was normal for their cars to “blow up to that extent” and for the engine to fly out 100 feet from the site of the crash.

Biggs also confirmed that Hastings was working on a story about the CIA and that it was “going to be the biggest story yet.”

As we reported yesterday, questions surrounding the death of Hastings are not only the domain of conspiracy theorists. Former counter-terror czar under two different presidents Richard Clarke told the Huffington Post that the fatal crash of Hastings’ Mercedes C250 C**pe was “consistent with a car cyber attack.”

“So if there were a cyber attack on the car — and I’m not saying there was,” he said, adding “I think whoever did it would probably get away with it,” and that “intelligence agencies for major powers” have such capabilities.

Clarke’s speculation that Hastings’ vehicle could have been remotely hijacked is echoed by Salon.com’s Andrew Leonard, who cites two studies by researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, “Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Vehicle,” and “Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces.”

The studies detail how “it is a relatively trivial exercise to access the computer systems of a modern car and take control away from the driver.”

Questions about the circumstances behind Hastings’ death have persisted because he made a number of enemies in positions of power.

After Wikileaks reported that Hastings had contacted them in the hours before his death complaining about being under investigation by the FBI, the federal agency denied the claim.

According to Hastings’ colleague Cenk Uygur, the writer was, “incredibly tense and very worried, and was concerned that the government was looking in on his material,” and also a “nervous wreck” in response to the surveillance of journalists revealed by the AP phone tapping scandal and the NSA PRISM scandal.

BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith added that Hastings had told friends and family “he was concerned that he was under investigation.”

Another close friend who wishes to remain anonymous said that Hastings was “very paranoid that he was being watched by the FBI.”

It subsequently emerged that Hastings had written a panicked email shortly before his death telling his friends and colleagues that he was going into hiding to escape the attention of the authorities.

“Hey — the feds are interviewing my “close friends and associates,” the message said. “Also: I’m onto a big story, and need to go off the [radar] for a bit.”

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This is just wrong. I cannot believe that something like this can happen in this country and right in plain sight.

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Michael Hastings (journalist)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michael Hastings and Valerie Jarrett at Barack Obama's victory party, 2012
Born Michael Mahon Hastings[1]
(1980-01-28)January 28, 1980
Malone, New York[2]
Died June 18, 2013(2013-06-18) (aged 33)
Los Angeles, California
Nationality United States
Alma mater New York University (2002)
Occupation Journalist
Known for Reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan
Notable work(s) Book I Lost My Love in Baghdad; A Modern War Story[3] and Rolling Stone, "The Runaway General"
Spouse(s) Elise Jordan
Awards George Polk Award
Website
www.michaelhastings.com
Notes
Profile in Contemporary Authors Online[4]

Michael Mahon Hastings (January 28, 1980 – June 18, 2013) was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone, and reporter for BuzzFeed.[5] He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and attended New York University. Hastings rose to prominence with his coverage of the Iraq War for Newsweek in the 2000s. After his fiancee was k**led by an improvised explosive device in Iraq, he wrote the memoir I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story (2008).

"The Runaway General" (2010), a Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in the Afghanistan war, documented the widespread contempt for civilian officials in the US government by the general and his staff and resulted in McChrystal's resignation. Hastings received the George Polk Award for his article in Rolling Stone and followed up with The Operators (2012), a detailed book account of his time with McChrystal.

Hastings became a vocal critic of the surveillance state during the investigation of reporters by the US Department of Justice in 2013, referring to the restrictions on the freedom of the press by the government as a "war" on journalism.[6] His last story, "Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans", was published by BuzzFeed on June 7.[7] Hastings died in a fiery high-speed automobile crash on June 18, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.[8]

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Following a storm of online conspiracy theories, the FBI took the unusual step this week of denying rumors it was investigating Michael Hastings before the journalist's death.

"At no time was journalist Michael Hastings under investigation by the FBI," agency public affairs specialist Laura Eimiller told CBSNews.com and other outlets, after the organization WikiLeaks suggested as much in a tweet.

The statement was a departure from the FBI's policy of neither confirming nor denying the existence of investigations, and earlier statements from FBI representatives refusing to comment.

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maybe you should do a little more checking into the clinton and obozo administrations