Report: Michael Hastings Feared His Mercedes Was Tampered With, Asked to Borrow Neighbor’s Car....

The Blaze ^ | Aug. 22 | Jason Howerton

[Mortrey]

Award-winning journalist Michael Hastings told his neighbor that he was afraid to drive his Mercedes because he believed it had been tampered with, according to a LA Weekly report.

[newfreep]

Only the most brain-dead Obama Supporter believes Hastings died in an accident....

Surely the FBI, CIA and NSA, who stated in clear terms it was a high speed accident,wouldn't lie to us.

You need to accept what you're told as truth!

.....do I really need a /s tag?

[newfreep]

As an addendum to my post above, wasn’t Hastings working on story about John Brennan?

[Hot Tabasco]

This ABCNews article about car hackers has a few interesting sentences in it:

You're certainly right, unfortunately there's no mention of his drug abuse........but what the heck, a conspiracy is always more fun to discuss

[MeshugeMikey]

I sense that we are at the dwan of QUITE an “interesting” era!

some for good some not so much....

[Tijeras_Slim]

If this guy was so worried, why didn’t he just rent a car or buy a junker?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Same LA Weekly article cited here also says that he’d been using drugs to the extent that his family was trying to get him into rehab.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Ah, knew he was or had been using due to toxicology report, but if it was heavy he probably had the paranoia thing going on.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

This is only partially true, and contains many out and out false statements. The “hacking” of car automotive systems that continually is referenced in this and similar articles involved connecting a laptop inside the vehicle and attacking the vehicles control systems. Researchers were able to take control of many systems, including braking, transmission, radio, door locks and even engine acceleration and performance.
The key concept here is that they had a computer plugged in physically to the data port in the car.
There has been documented cases that access to the vehicles systems can be hacked into wirelessly through means such as Bluetooth, cellular, and even sending false wireless tire pressure signals, the key is that these attacks have only disrupted the normal function of the cars systems, not taken control of them.
Don Bailey, the person who is quoted in the article appears to have some of his facts misrepresented. No passenger vehicles currently are allowed to use steer by wire systems.
Even the active park assist systems work by modifying the normal power steering “assist”, but there is at heart still a conventional “mechanical” linkage between the steering wheel and a rack and pinion system that controls where the front wheels are pointed at any given time.
Bottom line, I think that talk of remotely taking control and causing a crash is improbable.

[Carriage Hill]

Now I feel better; thanks.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Came across this. Don’t know if it is true.

Garrow: Breitbart’s ‘Big Mouth’ Got Him, Michael Hastings & Tom Clancy All Killed By President Obama
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garrow-breitbarts-big-mouth-got-him-michael-hastings-tom-clancy-all-killed-president-obama

Coast To Coast AM Alt. Hagmann & Hagmann Report - January 2 2014 - US Intelligence Whistleblower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NmAZIB0BHA
Join Coast to Coast AM alternative Hagmann and Hagmann Report as we open 2014 with a bang - an explosive interview with Jim Garrow,, a former U.S. Intelligence operative with knowledge about a number of current and coming events in the U.S. and worldwide. Mr. Garrow has agreed to spend the entire show with us to discuss a variety of topics, from the suspicious deaths and deliberate marginalization of journalists, to the truth about Barack Hussein Obama.