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It isn't that far-fetched to suspect foul play when a journalist who covered controversial stories suddenly dies. I can think of two notable examples immediately. One is Andrew Breitbart, who, at age 43 (the same age as Di-Natale), collapsed and died on the street in front of his house on March 1, 2012 -- just hours before he was set to release damning video footage that could have destroyed Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. And then there's the disturbing case of Michael Hastings, a journalist who died in a mysterious car crash on June 18, 2013. Hastings was preparing to publish a major investigative piece tied to the undercover agent who is suspected of sanitizing President Obama's passport records prior to the 2008 presidential election. He also was investigating abuses by the CIA and NSA. Hastings also wrote a piece about Bowe Bergdahl. He was able to convince fellow soldiers to speak upon conditions of anonymity while disobeying the "gag orders" of their superiors. That piece was published in Rolling Stone on June 7, 2012. The FBI was investigating Hastings. He died just hours after sending out an email warning friends about the agency's investigation...