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Suspicions Growing Over Death of Journalist Probing NSA and CIA Abuses
The New American ^ | 08 July 2013 | Alex Newman

Posted on 07/09/2013 8:32:47 AM PDT by george76

Weeks after the fiery death of investigative journalist Michael Hastings , who was probing abuses by the CIA and NSA and had recently informed others that he was being investigated by federal authorities, suspicions about his mysterious car crash are still swirling around the Internet. While police officially ruled the death an “accident,” serious questions are still surfacing — even in the establishment media and among prominent officials. Based on e-mails Hastings sent out shortly before he died about working on a “big story” and needing to go “off the radar,” it has become clear that he was worried, too.

Hastings, who wrote for Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed, Gawker, and other publications, was probably best known for his award-winning 2010 article “The Runaway General.” The piece helped bring down U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Despite his establishment credentials and what analysts called his “Democrat-friendly” reporting, Hastings had become extremely alarmed about the “surveillance state” and other troubling developments in recent months. His last published story: "Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans."

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Less than 24 hours before his death, Hastings made it crystal clear that he was concerned about his own well-being

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Heavy-hitters from the government sector have expressed concerns, too. Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke, for example ... that the deadly car crash was “consistent with a car cyber-attack.” Intelligence agencies for major powers — including the U.S. government — almost certainly know how to remotely seize control of a car

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; andrewbreitbart; arkacide; arkacides; arkancide; arkancides; benghazi; breitbart; cia; clarke; fastandfurious; garywebb; hastings; impeachnow; irs; marcrich; mcchrystal; michaelhastings; nsa; richardclarke; snowden; stanleymcchrystal; webb
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To: a fool in paradise

unfortunately this one is true


41 posted on 07/09/2013 10:16:31 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: null and void

I want to know what tapes Andrew had. I want to know what Hastings was investigating.


42 posted on 07/09/2013 10:17:45 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: dagogo redux
Just watch footage of the takedown of Building 7, then get back to me.

I know personally an individual who did safety inspections on that building. She said it was a ticking bomb with the generator fuel located as it was.

43 posted on 07/09/2013 10:17:57 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
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To: DoughtyOne
There was a spark in the fuel tank, and it spontaneously combusted.

The center fuel tank?

44 posted on 07/09/2013 10:26:02 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Nifster

IIRC Hastings was investigating Petraeus and the sex scandal.

Republican sex scandals is Hillary’s MO for providing cover for what she is up to, in the case of Petraeus it would be Benghazi.


45 posted on 07/09/2013 10:31:42 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: IMR 4350
It’s starting to look like Hillary is on a clean-up campaign.

Let’s not forget Marc Rich also died just recently.

If I’m right there will be more.

David Brock for one.

Noted.

46 posted on 07/09/2013 10:32:11 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: george76

Michael Cormier, coroner, another victim of....?

massively poisoned with arsenic from unknown source and for unknown reason by unknown parties

yet all I can find about his case is that it is
described as “a real head scratcher”

d’OH!


47 posted on 07/09/2013 10:33:23 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: GeoPie
Car experts have also expressed skepticism about the official narrative.

Well before I read the two paragraphs that begin with that sentence I was thinking that cars rarely blow up in big fireballs even in severe crashes. That's just Hollyweird FX BS.

48 posted on 07/09/2013 10:38:21 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: COBOL2Java

I see dead conservatives.


49 posted on 07/09/2013 10:42:56 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: US Navy Vet

There were people murdered near Mena and their bodies were placed on a railroad track to make it look like they’d been hit by a train. The state coroner was a Clinton buddy.

The Bushes are some of the biggest frauds we’ve ever elected. And I regret voting for them.....once.


50 posted on 07/09/2013 10:43:12 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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To: alancarp
Never say "I'm going to reveal something soon" - just do it already.

We have a winner!

51 posted on 07/09/2013 10:44:42 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

I regret that President Reagan didn’t FIRE George HW Bush in 1984 when he had the chance.


52 posted on 07/09/2013 10:45:59 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: null and void

Put Janet Reno and Elinor Clift on that list too.

Reno made a threat against Hillary, IIRC it was on the 5th anniversary of Waco in 1998. It had to do with the knowledge the Davidians had a suicide pact, which meant when Hillary ordered the final raid she knew the Davidians intended to set the building on fire.

Clift became a nervous wreck almost to the point of non- functional right after V Foster ended up buzzard bait, and she pretty much stayed that way as long as the Clinton’s were in the WH.

Bob Woodward is known to hang out on this site so that’s probable an accident waiting to happen too.

Hazel O’Learly, Clinton’s Energy Sec., put together the Oil for Food Program with Marc Rich, so there is another candidate for a dirt nap.

Be interesting to keep a running tab of Clintonite that end up dead.


53 posted on 07/09/2013 10:46:19 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: george76

“Thieves” looted the offices of Snowden’s lawyers, but took only computers, not silver bars and gold coins that were in plain view.


54 posted on 07/09/2013 10:48:10 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: Ann Archy

No, they were a ways apart.


55 posted on 07/09/2013 11:06:04 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: treetopsandroofs
You do have a history of claiming that Freepers who disagree with you are O-bots, Hussein-heads and infiltrators.

Give it a rest and debate the subject of threads without such name-calling.

56 posted on 07/09/2013 11:09:52 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: MeanWestTexan

Aren’t you mixing two different govt. thuggery issues there West Texan? I don’t think Hastings being taken out was why this law firm was busted into.


57 posted on 07/09/2013 11:09:58 AM PDT by techworker
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Bump this post


58 posted on 07/09/2013 11:20:21 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Was it Snowdens lawyers????I knew it was a whistleblower but didnt it was him???


59 posted on 07/09/2013 11:32:03 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: sport

Yep.


60 posted on 07/09/2013 11:38:35 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
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