Posted on 07/30/2013 7:57:59 AM PDT by mandaladon
A journalist and a researcher have sued the Justice Department for access to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s records on the late journalist Michael Hastings.
The lawsuit follows the FBI’s failure to respond to separate Freedom of Information Act requests for records on Hastings submitted by journalist Jason Leopold of al-Jazeera and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Ryan Shapiro.
Agencies are required by statute to notify applicants about whether it will fulfill their requests within a 20-working-day period of the initial application.
In the hours before his death, which was ruled an accident by the Los Angeles Police Department, Hastings emailed Wikileaks’ lawyer Jennifer Robinson that he was being investigated by the federal government.
Staff Sgt. Joseph Biggs — who knew Hastings when he was embedded with Bigg’s unit in Afghanistan — told KTLA Hastings had blind copied him on an email sent 15 hours before his death, notifying colleagues that federal officials were interviewing his “close friends and associates.”
Leopold, a personal friend of Hastings, wrote in a piece published on the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s website that a government investigation into Hastings would not be a surprise.
“Given the nature of Hastings’s investigative work and the revelations that have surfaced about the government’s interest in journalists’ sources it wouldn’t come as a surprise to me if some agency was looking into Hastings’s journalistic activities,” said Leopold
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/hillary-clinton-aide-tells-reporter-to-fuck-off
Hillary Clinton Aide Tells Reporter To “F*ck Off” And “Have A Good Life”
As the State Department’s story about what happened in Benghazi crumbles, Clinton’s personal spokesperson, Philippe Reines, loses his temper. “Have a good day. And by good day I mean F*ck Off.”
posted on September 24, 2012
On Sunday morning, BuzzFeed correspondent Michael Hastings emailed Philippe Reines, Hillary Clinton’s longtime aide and personal spokesman at the State Department, asking a series of pointed questions about State’s handling of the Benghazi fiasco, and Reines’ over-the-top attack on CNN. The emails quickly got personal, with Reines calling Hastings an “unmitigated *sshole” before an exchange of harsh words on both sides.
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To: Reines, Philippe I Cc: Nuland, Victoria J
Subject: Re: Request for comment
Hah—I now understand what women say about you, too! Any new complaints against you lately?
______________________________________
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Reines, Philippe I wrote:
Talk about bullsh*t - answer me this: Do you only traffic in lies, or are you on the ground floor of creating them?
And since F*ck Off wasn’t clear enough, I’m done with you. Inside of 5 minutes when I can log into my desktop, you’ll be designated as Junk Mail.
Have a good life Michael.
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/29/huma-abedin-dines-with-clinton-spokesman/July 29th, 2013
Huma Abedin dines with Clinton spokesman
Washington (CNN) - Huma Abedin was spotted having dinner Monday night with Hillary Clinton’s spokesman, Philippe Reines, in Washington.
The two were seen sitting outside at Meiwah Restaurant, a bustling area located between the neighborhoods known as Dupont Circle and Foggy Bottom.
Meiwah is a favorite spot of Reines’ and is considered a place to see and be seen.
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Well argued, nully!
No. The body was cremated after the family explicitly said they did not want it cremated.
I don't know why.
The same sequence was followed with the remains of SEAL team 6 members.
By statute? How charming! An educator and a reporter acting as if the rule of law still exists in this country. Perhaps if the bulk of their professions hadn't supported the election of the current fascist government - not once, but twice - then their little FOIA request might actually mean something. Instead, they can get in line behind the hundreds of other FOIA requests that go unanswered in this era of lawlessness.
Silly Peons, Law is for Thee, not for Meeee...
“Pop culture? You do know that’s the mnemonic for the elements of evidence needed for a circumstantial case, don’t you?
They are necessary (but not by themselves sufficient) elements for a criminal case to proceed. “
Yes, their are not by themselves sufficient, because you need, first and foremost, evidence that an actual crime was committed. Evidence that, despite all the non-evidence you cite in the rest of your post, you still don’t have. If you can’t even establish that Hastings didn’t crash his car himself, then you certainly can’t begin to prove that someone else hacked it in order to murder him.
“Pray tell, how would you prove it was hacked? You can’t”
Thank you for admitting that there is no evidence of hacking and the rest is pure speculation.
This phillip maggot is likely to wind up in an accident next before he can be hauled up for questioning.
Maggie, you got that pic of the bullet holes handy?
No pattern here, just a bunch of totally unrelated, isolated, random lethal incidents...
Advocating isn’t quite the right word. Enabling? No, not quite right either.
Maybe excusing? Covering for? Ignoring the possibility of?
How can I be advocating murder when there is not the first shred of actual evidence that a murder took place?
No, I’d say “refusing to acknowledge that which doesn’t exist”... or maybe “embracing reality”, “rejecting delusion”, take your pick.
That's closer.
“refusing to acknowledge the possibility of foul play”
or maybe "insisting that governmental evil cannot possibly exist"
More seriously, what in your mind would constitute evidence? Is it a high enough body count? A long enough series of remarkable coincidences? A clearly forged crucial document?
I'm not asking what would prove it to you, that is, after all, a rather high standard, I'm just curious to know what threshold needs to be crossed for you to even question the obama administration.
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So I guess we have to quit charging people with crime since even if we have a person at a place, or action being taken, but don’t have who did it on camera, just some motives and it happened there, we must stop charging people.
Whatever.
Reason 316 why I don’t have a cell phone. Much of what you posted is negated if you don’t have a cell phone. Not all of it, but much of it.
I doubt a pre-2000 vehicle could be retrofitted with a black box. The necessary electronics just aren’t there.
You realize that the contents of a black box essentially mimic that of most modern smartphones?
Speed, direction, location... all of it could be determined by something the size of a deck of cards. No new electronics required.
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