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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: IMR 4350
Bob Woodward is known to hang out on this site so that’s probable an accident waiting to happen too.

Known by whom, and by what evidence? That's the first time I've seen this suggested...though I wouldn't doubt it.

81 posted on 07/09/2013 12:47:08 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: MeanWestTexan
Do you mean this story? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3040321/posts? If so, it wasn't related to Snowden's lawyers.
83 posted on 07/09/2013 12:50:00 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: null and void

Thank you! You are now safe from my threats. :-)


85 posted on 07/09/2013 12:52:20 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: F15Eagle

:^)


87 posted on 07/09/2013 12:55:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
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To: F15Eagle

Yes, it’s always a pleasure.


88 posted on 07/09/2013 12:55:18 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: Nifster

Ask the folks at Breitbart.com. They showed the first one, then dropped the matter entirely.


89 posted on 07/09/2013 1:00:25 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: IMR 4350
David Brock for one

That'll be the easiest hit they've ever done. Cut his coke with some rat poison and call it a day.

90 posted on 07/09/2013 1:04:14 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Admin Moderator

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

YESSIR — even and especially when others start it, of course.

You certainly put me in MY place.


91 posted on 07/09/2013 1:19:12 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: george76
A quick search on 'ixquick' using "is it possible to remotely seize control of a car" as a search term brought up this little gem: vehicle computer systems hacks
92 posted on 07/09/2013 1:32:11 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: Carry_Okie

<< Anybody who has information that volatile and has not made provisions for it upon death is a total fool. >>

How can we be sure he DIDN’T make provisions? Assuming he was being closely monitored by FBI/NSA before he died, he could have underestimated their ability to know exactly what his backup plans were. If i were in the business of killing people for Presidents and other high-ranking politicians, i wouldn’t do it until i could be absolutely sure the victim’s backup plan had been neutralized first (or simultaneously). Hey, I’ve watched Jack Baeur AND done the Holiday Inn Express!

More likely, assuming he was murdered, he probably didn’t realize yet how volatile his new investigate story was. Do we know what he was working on? I read somewhere it was Benghazi.


93 posted on 07/09/2013 1:33:14 PM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: DoughtyOne

You left out center. CENTER fuel tank. And no one could have seen a missile with their own lying eyes because it didn’t exist.


94 posted on 07/09/2013 1:41:14 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: KC Burke

It was, of course, not a diesel. The Mercedes C-class is not available with a diesel in the USA. It was an entry-level C250 Coupe with a 1.8 liter, 200 h.p. gasoline engine, around $40K.


95 posted on 07/09/2013 1:46:57 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

1.8 liter? Good God, what is that, 175 c.i.?


96 posted on 07/09/2013 2:04:03 PM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: txhurl

That’s about 110 cubic inches.


97 posted on 07/09/2013 2:08:35 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: palmer
And can't be stopped by turning the key?

From the link in 92:

... the team was also able to "lock and unlock the doors; jam the door locks by continually activating the lock relay; pop the trunk; adjust interior and exterior lighting levels; honk the horn (indefinitely and at varying frequencies); disable and enable the window relays; disable and enable the windshield wipers; continuously shoot windshield fluid; and disable the key lock relay to lock the key in the ignition." Even the Electronic Brake Control Module was no match for the onslaught, with both individual and sets of brakes locked up at a whim. Equally worrying, the researchers were also able to completely disengage the brakes "even with car’s wheels spinning at 40 MPH while on jack stands" in the lab and then out on the test track (a de-commissioned airport runway) "forcibly activate the brakes, lurching the driver forward and causing the car to stop suddenly."
Not sure exactly what that means. Actually locked into the start position or just locked into the console so you can't remove the key after turning it off?
98 posted on 07/09/2013 2:09:33 PM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: RobinOfKingston

Ping to 98.


99 posted on 07/09/2013 2:10:15 PM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: txhurl

It gets bigger when turbocharged...


100 posted on 07/09/2013 2:13:42 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.)
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