I’m with you, was suspicious they could take control of vehicles with lots of computer electronics built in to them. Wasn’t Hastings was working on a big story about a General, cannot remember the name at the moment. Scary stuff!
He was working on a story about John Brennan, the head of the CIA from 2013-2016, the time period covered by these Wikileaks releases.
I read somewhere that Hastings was investigating Brennan.