Michael Hastings: was he killed by the government in relation to the NSA leaks?

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)

Michael Mahon Hastings (January 28, 1980 – June 18, 2013) was an American journalist, writer and reporter for BuzzFeed.[5] Hastings rose to prominence with his coverage of the Iraq War for Newsweek. After his fiancee died in Iraq, he wrote the memoir I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story (2008). His Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in the Afghanistan war, documented the widespread contempt of him and his staff for civilian officials in the US government and resulted in the general's resignation.

Watch the video here. Pretty chilling stuff.
http://ktla.com/2013/06/21/exclusiv...nt-just-hours-before-his-death/#axzz2Wpmgi7WX

He said he was under FBI Investigation:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-investigated-FBI-hours-deadly-car-crash.html

Since the award-winning journalist's death, conspiracy theorists have suggested the crash may have been suspicious, casting doubt on whether a Mercedez-Benz would catch fire so quickly after a crash.
Fueling the suspicions, WikiLeaks posted a tweet claiming: 'Michael Hastings death has a very serious non-public complication. We will have more details later.'
Three hours later the website claimed Mr Hastings had contacted their lawyer a few hours before he died.
Los Angeles police are still investigating the crash but say they have found no suspicious circumstances.

 

[jlprk]

Look at Hastings' brilliant writing, often exposing military intelligence, and you won't deny he was killed.

http://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/michael-hastings

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings

 

[MARIS61]

http://www.cpj.org/killed/

It doesn't include suspicious deaths or "accidents".

 

[jlprk]

Read about Gary Webb all you can.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

It can be a dangerous occupation. Sometimes stupidly so.

 

[jlprk]

Imagine the firestorm if the mass media told us that E. Howard Hunt, leader of the Watergate burglars, admitted in his old age that he had participated in an intelligence operation which killed President Kennedy.

http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...5-1.18.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.cP_uPpgZhMY

Tapes for sale by his son
http://saintjohnhunt.com/

Better keep covering it up.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/r...-car-crash-death/story-fndir2ev-1226669297371

 

[jlprk]

Another whistleblower dies. Darren Manzella. Military intelligence.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/30/darren-manzella-dead_n_3846233.html

 

[BrianFromWA]

"Military intelligence?" He was a medic. And he wasn't a whistleblower--he came out while it was still illegal to do so, left the military, and used his constitutional right to criticize the policy.

I think you're reaching pretty far on this one.

 

[Further]

I don't see proof, but the details are suspicious enough, and I have ample distrust of those in power of intelligence agencies, military secrets and top political positions that I do believe it was likely murder. Don't know that to be true, but I'd call it likely.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I think you're reaching pretty far on this one.

The story of 90% of S2 posters.

 

[jlprk]

What is the random probability of a young person dying within 6 years of famously opposing a major military policy?

High? Low? You lose the argument either way.

 

[BrianFromWA]

A) He wasn't a whistleblower
B) He wasn't military intelligence.
C) If you think the military targeted him for some reason, what's so special about him and not the thousands of others who came out and criticised the policy?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

A) He wasn't a whistleblower
B) He wasn't military intelligence.
C) If you think the military targeted him for some reason, what's so special about him and not the thousands of others who came out and criticised the policy?

I hate when people like you crap all over a perfectly good conspiracy theory with logic and facts.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Did you see the part that he was working on an NSA story and people connected to him were being questioned by the FBI?

 

[jlprk]

A. "True, but irrelevant."--Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnam's Westmoreland

B. "True, but irrelevant."--Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnam's Westmoreland

C. "He mo' famous than them."--Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnam's Westmoreland

 

[jlprk]

Did you see the part that he was working on an NSA story and people connected to him were being questioned by the FBI?

And the interviewing had begun just a couple of days before his death.