Posted on 07/30/2013 7:57:59 AM PDT by mandaladon
A journalist and a researcher have sued the Justice Department for access to the Federal Bureau of Investigations records on the late journalist Michael Hastings.
The lawsuit follows the FBIs failure to respond to separate Freedom of Information Act requests for records on Hastings submitted by journalist Jason Leopold of al-Jazeera and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Ryan Shapiro.
Agencies are required by statute to notify applicants about whether it will fulfill their requests within a 20-working-day period of the initial application.
In the hours before his death, which was ruled an accident by the Los Angeles Police Department, Hastings emailed Wikileaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson that he was being investigated by the federal government.
Staff Sgt. Joseph Biggs who knew Hastings when he was embedded with Biggs unit in Afghanistan told KTLA Hastings had blind copied him on an email sent 15 hours before his death, notifying colleagues that federal officials were interviewing his close friends and associates.
Leopold, a personal friend of Hastings, wrote in a piece published on the Freedom of the Press Foundations website that a government investigation into Hastings would not be a surprise.
Given the nature of Hastingss investigative work and the revelations that have surfaced about the governments interest in journalists sources it wouldnt come as a surprise to me if some agency was looking into Hastingss journalistic activities, said Leopold
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Not if I don’t have a smart phone, which I don’t.
Black boxes measure accelerator position and movement, braking system, tire pressure, steering wheel position and movement, etc. Which of these indicators are available from a smart phone?
Acceleration and braking can be determined by GPS very easily. Steering wheel position and movement could very simply be inferred by direction of the vehicle.
These “black boxes” are no bigger than a Tupperware container. They don’t necessarily have to be integrated into the systems of a vehicle to be useful to crash investigations, insurance companies, or government entities.
Also point out MaggieF picture. Sure looks like bullet holes!
Condoning.
Just want the dead man wrote in e-mails before he died.
I have never refused to acknowledge the possibility, only the probability. It’s just not a likely scenario. When you have an unlikely, implausible explanation for something that is much easier to explain with a more likely, more plausible explanation, then you need convincing evidence before you even begin to entertain the less likely explanation. There’s no evidence like that here.
“More seriously, what in your mind would constitute evidence? Is it a high enough body count? A long enough series of remarkable coincidences? A clearly forged crucial document? “
Body counts (in and of themselves) aren’t evidence of murder, nor are coincidences. A document, well, depending on what kind of document, what is in it, and what purpose it might have been forged for, might be evidence of something, but I don’t see how that is relevant here.
“I’m just curious to know what threshold needs to be crossed for you to even question the obama administration.”
I question them all the time, I just don’t accuse them of murder when there is no actual evidence to back up the accusation.
What exactly am I supposed to be looking for? Seems like a blurry photo of a firefighter at a crash scene.
And that he was cremated against or aside from the family's wishes
And that Al Jazzy is interested in the story.
And that despite the inferno, his finger prints were still viable.
And, in my most Wolfgang voice, "a dozen other ver-rry interesting parts."
No, but you must have evidence that an actual crime occurred before you can charge anyone with it. That’s pretty basic stuff. It’s pretty hard to charge someone with murder if the coroner rules a death accidental, for example.
Please quote the part of the email where he says “someone is trying to kill me!” or words to those effect, that would be evidence of a murder.
Well, those look like holes, but I don’t know how you would differentiate bullet holes from any other kind of roundish holes by looking at a photo like that.
If they were bullet holes, then at least 3 people must have been shooting at the vehicle with 3 different caliber weapons, with each of them only striking the vehicle once (but somehow within close proximity to the place the other shooters hit). Whether that is likely or not, everyone can judge for themselves.
Back to the thread.
Photo at # 39.
Are those bullet holes?
See Nully's # 6 again.
Thanks, hoosiermama.
Any scientific investigation will raise relevant questions and seek answers in a dispassionate and methodical manner. Ridicule of non-asserted conclusions is not relevant to a methodical scientific inquiry.
Asking questions is not stating conclusions. It is merely asking questions.
As to the evidence of hacking, Richard Clarke himself said you will never find evidence of hacking. The only evidence one can obtain on that front is testimony by the hacker himself.
And now, having ‘gotten away with the biggest fraud in the country’s history,’ he’s literally getting away with murder. All those people who said that eligibility doesn’t matter and to concentrate on the bigger things are seeing that in action now. 0bama, Holder, Jarrett, the DNC, and H3ll are getting away with murder and flinging their guilt in our faces.
YOU HEAR THAT MORRIS, O’REILLY, HANNITY, LIMBAUGH, BECK, et al. Enough with the taboo. What SHOULD be taboo is that you have no honor.
Oh, and GOP? Go onto Perdition.
I would like to the NSA files before agreeing with you. Especially with your signup date.
The op was federal. There’ll be records of transmissions and commands. Every keystroke. Every drone video.
To me those holes look like side trim mount holes. Look at where the door handle that is no longer there was, they’re uniform like the others.
A car traveling at that rate of speed would make for a very tough target, especially if you are trying to target a certain spot to trigger an explosion. Even if you did it with an full auto weapon, the whole side would be riddled with holes, not just a few select spots.
Now that one on the bottom next to the rear tire, OTOH....
There is much cause for suspicion in this incident as far as I’m concerned, but I don’t think those a bullet holes.
Here is the side view of a Mercedes C250.
Why did it have to be hacked? wouldn’t a small incendiary device also produce the same result without all the James Bond?
Didn’t Mercedes stop using that same coolant because it was known to be flammable? (so a leaking coolant combined with a spark from the road caused by a flat tire causes the flash)
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