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 Investigation’s records on the late journalist Michael Hastings.
The lawsuit follows the FBI’s 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 Bigg’s 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 Foundation’s website that a government investigation into Hastings would not be a surprise.
“Given the nature of Hastings’s investigative work and the revelations that have surfaced about the government’s interest in journalists’ sources it wouldn’t come as a surprise to me if some agency was looking into Hastings’s journalistic activities,” said Leopold
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With the exception of the hole near the tire, those look like machined holes.
The one near the tire othoh looks like an impact hole.
Also, look at the other hole in the side panels, (to the left and to the extreme right) they're of a different diameter, only the bottom one seems to be from an impact from a bullet.
I dunno maggief, I too question everything about this too, but....
As if these reckless speculation threads on FR amount to any kind of “scientific inquiry”. Ha!
Produce them then.
I do not work for any such agency. If I did, or if I knew anyone who did, I would not tell you.
The NSA has already admitted its capability. File an FOIA yourself. Be a hero.
Why would I file an FOIA when I don’t think there is any evidence that a crime was committed, much less that it was committed by the government and covered up?
Let the people making the accusation dig up the evidence to back up their assertions.
Looks like two 9mm - nice dt grouping,
and a solitary .45.
And was there one right below the window, in the door?
Yep. One .45, right in the driver’s positon. And no, those are not trim holes or drilled holes. What’s your take, folks?
Cremating a body eliminates any pesky wound tracks that would still be present in a partly burned corpse.
The ‘E’s have it....
Perfect copies. Down to the pixel.
And that is relevant to this story how, exactly?
I wonder aabout what looks like a .45 hit right in fron of the wheel, amlomst at street level. Is the gas tank directly on the other side, or is it behind the wheel?
And a good hard fmj, would that be able to get stuff on the other side of the car?
Anyone have an exploded view of this model?
What's your take on the singular recent demises of Seal Team 6, Benghazi, Andrew Breitbart, Breitbart's coroner...and past demises of Vince Foster, Ron Brown, and...JFK?
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.
See if you are smart enough to determine if this document has been altered.
I know a document cannot be verified as genuine from an image, but it can be demonstrated as being false, just ask Dan Rather.
Is this scan altered?
Answer that, and I will tell you how it's relevant.
There are those on this thread who'll claim those are woodpecker holes or "air vents".
And lo and behold: the tank on this model is in the right spot, and it is a saddle that goes *over* the driveshaft and hangs down on both sides.
The junp-in-the-air and exploding while flying may actually have a simpler explanation.
What monkey designs a fuel tank with two low spots???
That depends on who your daddy is, and to what extent you believe the Alphabet Agencies possess credibility. The question is, do they?
Does that BC number appear altered to your trained/in-trained eye? Yes or No?
You post a tiny blow up cut out from what is apparently one of the many versions of Obama’s birth certificate and want me to tell you if it has been altered? No thanks, I am not playing that game.
If it isn’t relevant to the topic, then go start another thread about it.
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