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EMAIL SENT BY MICHAEL HASTINGS HOURS BEFORE HIS DEATH MENTIONS ‘BIG STORY’...
The Blaze ^ | Jun. 21, 2013 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 06/22/2013 11:29:37 AM PDT by barmag25

In an email sent hours before his death in a fiery single-car crash in Los Angeles Tuesday, award-winning journalist Michael Hastings reportedly wrote that he was working on a “big story” and was going to “go off the radar for a bit.”

The subject of the email was “FBI investigation re: NSA,” KTLA reports.

A copy of the email, sent on Monday, was reportedly provided to KTLA by Staff Sgt. Joseph Biggs, who was a recipient of the email.

“Hey [redacted copy], the Feds are interviewing my ‘close friends and associates.’ Perhaps if authorities arrive ‘BuzzFeed GQ’, er HQ, may be wise to immediately request legal counsel before any conversations or interviews about our news-gathering practices or related journalism issues,” Hastings wrote in the email.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dncrico; fbinsa; hastingsemail; holdervswitnesses; michealhastings; obamarico; obamavswitnesses
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To: Political Junkie Too
Hackable? How about the NSA spying? If the car is connected to his cell phone, then it would have been tracked just like any other cell phone. Could someone have used the same type of hacking that was found on Sharyl Attkisson's computer to take over control of the car's computers?

Anything is possible these days, even the NSA possibly getting involved in "wet work". However, there have certainly been some stories in the past few years about the security problems found in cars with OBD-II computer controls.

Here's one: http://www.caranddriver.com/features/can-your-car-be-hacked-feature

In some of the other stories on this, chase vehicles were used to take over critical systems (throttle, brake, etc.) When you factor in the resources that the government has (such as full access to the OBD system code), the possibilities get very ugly.

I think I'll hang on to my '64 pickup.

61 posted on 06/22/2013 1:47:16 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: dandiegirl

Or get to whomever is giving him the story!

Otoh. It increases the tic tic tic of a WH face


62 posted on 06/22/2013 1:48:23 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: boxlunch

boxlunch ~:” Didn’t the coroner who did the autopsy on Breitbart also die mysteriously during the time he was investigating? Am I remembering that correctly ? “

BINGO ! ..INTERESTING !
Nope , there were TWO MYSTERIOUS DEATHS in the Coroner office ~ depends on how much credence you have in wmd.com .

Los Angeles Chief Coroner Investigator Craig Harvey revealed his official cause of death to Breitbart.com: as predicted, he died due to heart failure.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/la-coronor-confirms-andrew-breitbarts-cause-of-death-heart-failure/

# 1) Veteran Los Angeles coroner forensic technican Michael Cormier had died, apparently due to arsenic poisoning.
The 61 year old Cormier was discovered dead on April 20th - the same day the city officials had released their preliminary autopsy report on the death of conservative media powerhouse Andrew Breitbart.
http://www.infowars.com/breitbart-coroner-turns-up-dead-before-final-cause-of-death-report-is-released/

#2a )Now, the only witness to see him die, Christopher Lassete, is missing.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/now-a-witness-to-breitbarts-death-disappears/?cat_orig=politics

#2b)On the day the Los Angeles County coroner released Breitbart’s autopsy report, a photographic technician at the coroner’s office died suddenly of suspicious causes.
http://thefinereport.com/2012/05/not-funny-now-a-witness-to-breitbarts-death-vanishes/

Cue the music for the “X Files “


63 posted on 06/22/2013 1:50:41 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” - Ronald Reagan)
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To: MinuteGal

Enough to ID. Family will finish cremation


64 posted on 06/22/2013 1:51:12 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: hoosiermama
That's what I thought. We'll never know what he died from.

Leni

65 posted on 06/22/2013 2:01:01 PM PDT by MinuteGal (SO)
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To: hoosiermama; maggief

Here’s an interview with eyewitness..saw one done with him at crash scene but he doesn’t speak English fluently so this one is done with a translator. It seems there were sparks around the gas tank or undercarriage even before he went through the red light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4tmNXC58ww;


66 posted on 06/22/2013 2:04:47 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: barmag25
Our friend picked us up at LAX this morning, and we were talking about that accident... she lives very close to that corner. she said the engine landed all the way down the street from the car... very high speed.

She also said it was a huge scene... lots of local and other police, plus the FBI. I found it odd that the FBI would show up for what should be a "typical" late night car accident.

67 posted on 06/22/2013 2:10:35 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: barmag25

“...and was going to “go off the radar for a bit.”

He’s way the hell off the RADAR now...


68 posted on 06/22/2013 2:24:08 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Cementjungle

Cementjungle ~:” She also said it was a huge scene... lots of local and other police, plus the FBI. I found it odd that the FBI would show up for what should be a “typical” late night car accident.”

I didn’t know that the FBI investigated autombile accidents ?
And the FBI are ‘country cousins’ to the CIA !
They are all under the aegis of the Dept. of “Just-US” !!
Since the FBI are implicated by the Hastings email text , I would suggest an independent investigation !!

If it looks like it,
Smells like it,
amd draws flys ,
You have reason to beleive that its*it (phoneticly) !


69 posted on 06/22/2013 2:26:09 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” - Ronald Reagan)
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To: TADSLOS

“He’s certainly off the radar now.”

I should read all the replies before I bother to post.


70 posted on 06/22/2013 2:26:11 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: TalBlack

Who reads the posts? LOL.


71 posted on 06/22/2013 2:28:58 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: centurion316

Driving too fast is not, as you say, a simple logical explanation. It might be for a 20 year old kid but this guy was an adult and a serious, accomplished writer who was working on a big story and concerned about his well-being.


72 posted on 06/22/2013 2:41:31 PM PDT by ladyjane (For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.)
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To: Cementjungle

If it was NOT the FBI but someone posing as the FBI who were looking and questioning before the accident they certainly better be investigating now!


73 posted on 06/22/2013 2:44:05 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: hoosiermama

How do we know it’s him?


74 posted on 06/22/2013 2:45:27 PM PDT by Taylor42
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To: Political Junkie Too
2. Someone hacked into his car's control computers and forced his car to accelerate and swerve into a tree.

If we're not there yet - we're very close.

75 posted on 06/22/2013 2:47:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (... liberal anger - - the privileged wheeze of entitled brats ... Greenfield)
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To: Charles Martel
Good article, thanks. That's pretty much what I expected to see.

-PJ

76 posted on 06/22/2013 2:56:51 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Taylor42

We don’t know for certain till the autopsy. Police are assuming its him because its his car. The car could have been stolen. Joy Ride would have explained the speed.


77 posted on 06/22/2013 2:59:55 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: SE Mom

He says in video that there were sparks flying from beneath the car as he went down road. He didn’t accelerate until after running the red light


78 posted on 06/22/2013 3:04:26 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Your #2 is known as the “Boston Brakes” scenario.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Boston%20Brakes
79 posted on 06/22/2013 3:07:15 PM PDT by Polynikes (What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
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To: hoosiermama; Political Junkie Too; GOPJ; ladyjane

Well , that’s two major stories which would have impacted the administration/ regieme that were mysteriously “killed” under suspicious circumstances :
#1)Brietbart’s big story after going to Ayers residence for dinner ~ heart attack
#2) Hastings story on David Petraeus ‘early retirement’ from the CIA (spook city) ~ auto accident

In these two instances , the only agency who could effectively pull all the strings is the NSA , whom we are only just learning about.
Is Diane Fienstein really capable of over-seeing the watchers ?
or more symbolicly : who in their right mind would put “ Marshmellow Fluff” on a Reuben sandwich ?
My question is : Who is watching the watchers ?


80 posted on 06/22/2013 3:19:53 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” - Ronald Reagan)
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