Posted on 06/20/2013 6:32:59 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
WikiLeaks just threw some gasoline onto the conspiracy fire. On Wednesday night, they Tweeted: Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.
What exactly are they trying to say?
Michael Hastings was a much admired freelance journalist who covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and helped to bring down General Stanley McChrystal. He was tragically killed this week in a car crash in Los Angeles, after his car hit a tree. Hastings is believed to have been alone in the vehicle.
Hastings has certainly been in contact with WikiLeaks before. In 2012 he wrote a profile of Julian Assange for Rolling Stone in which he asked tough questions but the overall tone is sympathetic. Hastings appeared willing to accept that the US government might have targeted Assange in an effort to discredit him; the interview also highlights the failure of mainstream media outlets to expose mistakes made by the US military and generally permits Assange to push his side of the story. Hastings empathy for WikiLeaks ties together the deceased journalist, Julian Assange and (through Assange) the leaker Bradley Manning. You can throw Edward Snowden into that mix because he, too, is an admirer of WikiLeaks. And Hastings last article was about the evils of the NSA which ended with the tantalising line, Perhaps more information will soon be forthcoming. Glenn Greenwald Tweeted a link to the piece after Hastings' death. Of such connections are conspiracy theories made. In the minds of the highly imaginative, that is. . .
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Anything new?
I wonder if his car was stuck by a drone launch?
Remember all the Clinton associates that met untimely deaths? There are all kinds of “accidents” that can happen.
Wow.
You mean like the mechanic that found the Rose Law Firm records in the trunk of a car they were supposed to crush eons ago, and his Restored Vette Suspension came un-done and he lost control and crashed and didn't make it...
Okay, I’ll bite. This could be something.
Doesn't this keep getting more and more interesting.
Wow. Never knew that. Will have to look that up.
Fits with Breitbart’ “heart attack”
/tinfoil hat off
I read in an article posted on FB that the rear of the car exploded, it sounded as if they were saying it exploded before it hit the tree.
It is also very unusual for a car to explode in the rear in a collision involving the front end.
Golly...guess its time to take my tin foil hat off!
Gas tank’s toward rear I assume.
Maybe the Ostapo rigged it to blow like CBS did with that Jeep on their TV special years ago.
FNC has been shut down on Snowden. Their staff have lives to live, too.....
“with that Jeep”
It was a chevy pu truck, with side gas tanks. But yes, it was rigged.
Hastings worked with the obuma thugs to take down their perceived enemies in the military. I’m not buying the Chicago hit theory. He was an ally in the obuma clique.
Maybe the Ostapo rigged it to blow like CBS did with that Jeep on their TV special years ago.
See Le Carre "The Honorable Schoolboy"...where the villains put a hand grenade in the hero's car fuel tank....with the lever held down with thick elastic bands....
..eventually the gas will dissolve the rubber....
Oopsie. Thanks Brad from Tennessee.
He was tragically killed this week in a car crash in Los Angeles, after his car hit a tree.
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