If you’re going to kill someone for political reasons, I’d think you’d want it to be quite and deniable. You’d inject him with flu and pneumonia. You’d create a gas leak in his house and spark it with an old appliance. At the very least you’d do the old hit and run. You don’t do something spectacular. If you do, then you’re sending all sorts of messages. In Russia, a high value industrialist was killed with radioactive cesium in his telephone head set. Now, how many people can obtain or safely handle radioactive cesium? Only somebody government connected. So, that not only killed the guy, but sent a valuable message to others who might be inclined to not tow the line.
Who would “they” want to send a message to? Other journalists? What, there’s somebody threatening to publish Obama’s hidden records? Other journalists would kill them first.
Maybe Hastings got Breitbarted.
When starting with the assumption that conspiracy theories are true until proven otherwise, there is no more argument.
Meanwhile, the rest of reality demands extraordinary proof for extraordinary claims.