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Hastings sent panicked email just before crash
Slate ^ | June 23, 2013 | Daniel Politi

Posted on 06/24/2013 9:31:50 AM PDT by Deathtomarxists

Partial Excerpt, more at site: Journalist Michael Hastings wrote an email to his colleagues hours before he died last week in which he said his “close friends and associates” were being interviewed by the FBI and he was going to “go off the radar for a bit.” The 33-year-old journalist said he was “onto a big story,” according to KTLA . . .

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; hastings; hastingsemails; jaguarxk120roadster; kissmedeadly; michaelhastings; mikehammer; nsa; obama; snowden
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Or the driver could have been s*** faced or a wreckless, lousy driver who lost control and ended up killing himself in the process.

Well... then surely his driving history will include repeat DUI offenses.

A responsible employed adult just doesn't go out at 3am while drunk out of his mind and drive down a side street at 100 mph.

Perhaps you might want to check his driving history, or wait to see if the NSA or FBI provide that info before making that assumption.

In the video of the aftermath, there was an open beer bottle laying in the grass in the median, somewhere prior to the final crash into the tree.

The MEDIA made sure they focused on it. Question is... how did it get there ?

Was Hastings drinking ? Heck, we still don't know where he WAS at 3am before he got in the car. Why is that ?

We can't have an autopsy reveal whether he was drinking, because he was burnt to a crisp. (how convenient).

21 posted on 06/24/2013 10:02:43 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Deathtomarxists
Wipes out in a fiery 100 mph car crash, too much of a coincidence.


22 posted on 06/24/2013 10:05:41 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: UCANSEE2

Turn the car off. Burn up the brakes stopping it. Put it in low gear and blow up the transmission.


23 posted on 06/24/2013 10:05:44 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Deathtomarxists

How about: Obama used NSA intelligence to blackmail a closted gay supreme court justice into changing his vote on Obamacare.


24 posted on 06/24/2013 10:08:01 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: agere_contra
Put someone on his tail and play games....that can cause a crash....and the game player just drives away.

Any witnesses?? What a surprise??

25 posted on 06/24/2013 10:09:30 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: agere_contra
"Breaking news photographer Scott Lane happened to be less than a mile from the scene of the crash, and shot video of the fiery aftermath.

Video taken from his car’s dashcam also caught what appeared to be Hastings’ Mercedes minutes before the crash, speeding through a red light.

More than 30 seconds pass after Hastings’ car goes by, and no other cars pass through the intersection.

“There’s no cars that are following him,” Lane said. “He flies by and 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds goes by… No cars are following him.”

(KTLA5 TV)

(Associates are rumored to believe he was being chased by a drone - Internet chatter)

26 posted on 06/24/2013 10:12:21 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: UCANSEE2
I believe that in "North by Northwest" Cary Grant is held down forcibly while evil Martin Landau pours about a pint of scotch into a tall glass. This is just before a very drunken Grant has a bad car accident. I believe somethign similar happens in the classic Michael Caine movie "Get Carter".

I have no idea what happened to Hastings, but you raise a good point -- if people with no DUI history suddenly have a drunken crash, it (at least) raises the question: How did this come about?

27 posted on 06/24/2013 10:17:13 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Let’s just all admit we have some embarrassing dirt, laugh about it, and work together to bring down this government.


28 posted on 06/24/2013 10:20:21 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: laplata

maxine waters said he has everythong on everybody.


29 posted on 06/24/2013 10:20:39 AM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: TexasCajun
I saw video of him running the red light followed by two other cars running the red light? ...very high speed.

I looked for it too.

All I can find NOW is police car cam footage showing him go by very fast, and then TWO MINUTES LATER the police car starts to pursue, albeit at a very slow speed.

It would appear that something was EDITED OUT of the police cam footage.

Why wouldn't this police car have his emergency lights and siren on, and going a little faster? ? ? ? ? ? ?

30 posted on 06/24/2013 10:21:12 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: saganite

First wife’s cousin racing with my 57 Ford @120mph drop to 2nd gear.
Crank 3 pieces wraped four rods(came out side of block), cam in 7 pieces,pan wiped out.
Explained “red lights came on dash so he coasted into Service station and tried to put water in radiator thinking it had overheated.” Service station was flooded with oil and water before he figured it was something else!
What you suggested, I saw done with a Pontiac Automatic(went to Rev-Park) and it will do DAMAGE to trans. and car!


31 posted on 06/24/2013 10:24:30 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: saganite
Turn the car off. Burn up the brakes stopping it. Put it in low gear and blow up the transmission.

What if the reason you were driving fast in the first place was because you were being chased by shady characters with guns ?

32 posted on 06/24/2013 10:24:55 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: TexasCajun

Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gNhqKRugk8Q

This thread has some good info on it; note post #69 as you go thru it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3033987/posts


33 posted on 06/24/2013 10:24:58 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: saganite

Conspiracy theories are alway crazy, unless they are true.


34 posted on 06/24/2013 10:25:15 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Or the driver could have been s*** faced or a wreckless, lousy driver who lost control and ended up killing himself in the process.

Plausible... yep, who would question that.

35 posted on 06/24/2013 10:26:33 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: concerned about politics
I think a poster on another thread already mentioned this, but WHAT IF this crash was HOW he is going 'off the radar'?

Others said that the 'investigators' have ID'd his body by some forensic means.

Well... that's how you go off the radar, isn't it ? You disappear and the 'officials' state they have a positive ID ?

36 posted on 06/24/2013 10:28:42 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: UCANSEE2

I’m glad you saw the same video with 3 vehicles.


37 posted on 06/24/2013 10:30:39 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: UCANSEE2

That’s a reporter’s car, not a cop car, as I’d originally thought too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gNhqKRugk8Q


38 posted on 06/24/2013 10:36:48 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: UCANSEE2

I saw several videos showing the burning car. I also saw how they focused on a beer bottle that appeared to me to be a prop. Too well placed, clean, Just stood out too much. There were several videos of it. One had a witness to the incident that said he heard an explosion just prior to crash. I don’t know where I got the links from. But there were several links to videos on this online yesterday on YouTube.


39 posted on 06/24/2013 10:38:20 AM PDT by MarineMom613 (RIP Sandra Sue, my fur baby 12/31/1999 ~ 7/2/2010 - See you on the other side!)
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To: Donnafrflorida

Yes, I saw that. She let it slip out.


40 posted on 06/24/2013 10:38:39 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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