Suspicious crash of Michael Hastings goes mainstream, CIA connection
UPDATE: March 2017, WikiLeaks has revealed that the CIA is exploring hacking cars, creating the potential for nearly untraceable assassinations.
Something (multiple things) I didn’t include back in 2013…
Michael Hastings Sent Email About FBI Probe Hours Before Death | HuffPo http://t.co/TSdkQWUF43
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 23, 2013
Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 19, 2013
—–This is our unedited article from 2013—–
Fox News Headline: Journalist Michael Hastings reportedly working on story about CIA chief before death
Journalist Michael Hastings, who was killed in a fiery car crash in June, reportedly had been working on several big stories including one on CIA Director John Brennan before his death.
San Diego 6 News reports
that Hastings had focused his latest project on Brennan, the former White House counterterrorism adviser and current CIA director.
Hastings’ wife Elise Jordan also told CNN that a Brennan piece from her late husband will soon be published in Rolling Stone magazine.
San Diego 6 News also reported on a purported email from a CIA contractor which said Brennan was behind “witch hunts of investigative journalists” and someone from the White House was targeting anyone printing material “negative to the Obama agenda.”
The CIA’s response:
Any suggestion that Director Brennan has ever attempted to infringe on constitutionally-protected press freedoms is offensive and baseless.
(From an earlier story) Mere hours before the fiery car crash that took his life, journalist Michael Hastings sent an email to friends and colleagues urging them to get legal counsel if they were approached by federal authorities.
“Hey [redacted] the Feds are interviewing my ‘close friends and associates,'” read the message dated June 17 at 12:56 p.m. from Hastings to editors at the website BuzzFeed, where he worked.
“Perhaps if the 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 added that he was onto a big story and that he would, “need to go off the radat [radar] for a bit,” according to KTLA in Los Angeles.
Fifteen hours later, in the early morning of June 18, Hastings was driving a Mercedes C250 at a high speed when he lost control in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park neighborhood, causing the car to fishtail and crash into a palm tree. The impact caused the car to burst into flames, trapping the 33-year-old inside.
The following video claims to be of the aftermath of Michael Hastings’ crash.