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Journalist Michael Hastings had drugs in system when he died, coroner’s report says
foxnews.com ^ | 8/20/13 | ap

Posted on 08/20/2013 1:46:54 PM PDT by ColdOne

The Los Angeles Coroner’s Office says journalist Michael Hastings, who won fame writing the Rolling Stone article that ended General Stanley McChrystal's career, had drugs including amphetamines and marijuana in his system when he was killed in a fiery car crash in June.

However, a toxicology report states the amphetamines, likely meth, were "unlikely to have an intoxicative effect at the time of the accident,” and that Hastings likely ingested the marijuana hours earlier.

Hasting’s cause of death was massive blunt force trauma, and the coroner determined he likely lost consciousness upon impact and died within seconds.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; drugs; libertarians; losangeles; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; meth; methamphetamine; michaelhastings; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; tetrahydrocannabinol
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1 posted on 08/20/2013 1:46:54 PM PDT by ColdOne
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His bloodstream was a toxic brew at the time of his death but the drugs certainly didn't affect his judgment.
2 posted on 08/20/2013 1:50:07 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit)
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To: ColdOne

a doper demoncrat propagandist, I’m shocked, absolutely shocked /s


3 posted on 08/20/2013 1:55:17 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: rigelkentaurus

he was rolling stoned.


4 posted on 08/20/2013 1:59:28 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The tests are very sensitive. A positive test may mean that a few molecules of the drug are present — far, far below the level of intoxication. And, far, far below a “toxic brew”.


5 posted on 08/20/2013 2:00:42 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: ColdOne

Ah, yes - new, highly-believable pixels appear on the screen before me.

Who am I to question what they convey?


6 posted on 08/20/2013 2:01:54 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: ColdOne
Oh, of course he did. He's the baaaad guy, remember? /s
7 posted on 08/20/2013 2:03:05 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: ColdOne

Nothing to see here. Reminds me how much I liked that short TV series, Rubicon.


8 posted on 08/20/2013 2:03:52 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: ColdOne; All
That FOX story doesn't explain why they cremated Michael Hastings.

KEY QUESTION: Where the hell was he driving FROM/TO at 4:30AM in Los Angeles?


Here's the map/theory I put together.


9 posted on 08/20/2013 2:06:28 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: ColdOne

A Rolling Stone reporter in Los Angeles smoked POT..?

Gosh....you know what?

I’ll bet EVERYTHING he was writing about the Muslim Director of Central Intelligence investigating and intimidating journalists was a LIE...!

Good thing we know about the bad REEFER..!!


10 posted on 08/20/2013 2:06:55 PM PDT by gaijin
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Alledged drugs in Michael Hastings system is UNVERIFIABLE by a second opinion.
The family alledgedly asked the body not be creamated
The body was creamated anyway

Who authorized the creamation ?
Signed documents should be available as to who made that determination.

11 posted on 08/20/2013 2:07:10 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ((Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison))
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To: TurboZamboni

I been Mick Jaggered, been silver daggered
Andy Warhol, won’t you please come home?
I been mothered, fathered, aunt and uncled
Been Roy Haleed and Art Garfunkeled
I just discovered somebody’s tapped my phone

- P.Simon


12 posted on 08/20/2013 2:07:19 PM PDT by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: ColdOne

Reminds me of Ryan Dunn, but with pot. Was probably thinking he was being chased and went off the deep end.


13 posted on 08/20/2013 2:09:27 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: LyinLibs
That FOX story doesn't explain why they cremated Michael Hastings.

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Exactly. I don't believe ANYTHING the Coroner's office has to say. In fact - I beleive the opposite. Based on this...

 

Journalist Michael Hastings' Body Cremated by Authorities Against Family's Wishes (Video)

Friday, July 19, 2013 9:30:03 AM · by Responsibility2nd · 44 replies
Opposing Views ^ | 07/17/2013 | By Michael Allen

 

14 posted on 08/20/2013 2:10:01 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: ColdOne

John Brennan, director of the CIA:

They say he converted to Islam while he was CIA Chief of Station in Riyadh.

Oh! Almost forgot...!

He was an exec at the DC company responsible for stealing GayMuzzie's passport data from the State Department, with the culprit later SHOT IN THE HEAD in his car in front of his freaking church.

Meh..! Could happen to anyone, right? I mean, I'm sure that's completely coincidental, right?

And since that happened right before Obama appointed him to HEAD OF THE FREAKING CIA, I guess ole GayMuzzie just LOST HIS MIND, and up and APPOINTED HIM, right?

I mean, I'm sure that a career CIA operative wouldn't know a thing or two about control and leverage, and even if he did finally learn such things, then he would NEVAR apply those lessons to his own professional life, right?

Perish the thought..! I mean THAT would be nasty..!!

They say that in addition to the ole' LIBYAN MISSILE SMUGGLING thang he was rocking down there that Johnny gradually DID NOT LIKE some of the nightshirted gentlemen running around the dunes down there. And that there was some mission creep and that he, uh...

STARTED PINK MISTING a good number of 'em. And their buddies DID NOT LIKE THAT.

SO WHAT THEN HAPPENED, HMMM...?

Bengazi. But after a few honest journoz stuck to the trail, then some started getting investigated and intimidated.

And they say BRENNAN is the last story Hastings was working on.

15 posted on 08/20/2013 2:10:32 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: ColdOne

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Now, golly... you’d have to be a terrible cynic to think that the gubbermint would fake up a blood test, wouldn’t you? Or that some nefarious persons or persons unknown, for whatever reasons might want to make it look like this guy was a druggie.

Gosh.


16 posted on 08/20/2013 2:13:09 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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Journalist Michael Hastings' Body Cremated by Authorities Against Family's Wishes

Just like all those Seal Team 6 members .....

17 posted on 08/20/2013 2:23:05 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: LyinLibs

Again, there is a much closer police station on Wilcox, north of Fountain.


18 posted on 08/20/2013 2:51:35 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

and the question is WHY? We will never know the truth simply because the report says he had drugs in his system. They could just have simply place that to make Michael look like some drug addict and to cover up their corruption.


19 posted on 08/20/2013 2:51:40 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: gaijin

Things that make you go “Hmmm...”


20 posted on 08/20/2013 2:57:02 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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