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Sunday, June 23, 2013


Michael Hastings Sent Email About FBI Probe Hours Before Death - Rumored To Have Been Working On A Big Story Having To Do With Petreaus/Privacy 


From Will at THE OTHER NEWS:


Michael Hastings Sent Email About FBI Probe Hours Before Death.HT: HuffingtonPost.

Hours before dying in a fiery car crash, award-winning journalist Michael Hastings sent an email to his colleagues, warning that federal authorities were interviewing his friends and that he needed to go "off the rada[r]" for a bit.
The email was sent around 1 p.m. on Monday, June 17. At 4:20 a.m. the following morning, Hastings died when his Mercedes, traveling at high speeds, smashed into a tree and caught on fire. He was 33.
Hastings sent the email to staff at BuzzFeed, where he was employed, but also blind-copied a friend, Staff Sgt. Joseph Biggs, on the message. Biggs, who Hastings met in 2008 when he was embedded in his unit in Afghanistan, forwarded the email to KTLA, who posted it online on Saturday.
Here's the email, with the recipients' names redacted.
Subject: FBI Investigation, re: NSA Hey (redacted names) -- the Feds are interviewing my "close friends and associates." 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.
Also: I'm onto a big story, and need to go off the rada[r] for a bit.
All the best, and hope to see you all soon.
Michael
It's unclear what "big story" Hastings was working on prior to his death, but it might have to do with yet another military bigwig, this time retired general David Petraeus. 

The LA Times reported that Hastings was researching a story about a privacy lawsuit brought by Jill Kelley, the Florida socialite who took center stage in the Petraeus cheating scandal, against the Department of Defense and the FBI. According to a person close to Kelley, the paper said, Hastings had plans to meet a representative of hers to discuss the case next week.Read the full story here.
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5 comments:

  1. Always On WatchSunday, June 23, 2013 5:59:00 pm

    Uh oh.

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  2. PastoriusSunday, June 23, 2013 6:10:00 pm

    And how.

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  3. CiccioMonday, June 24, 2013 3:06:00 am

    Do a web search for Mercedes test crashes, they have done dozens and for some queer reasons I have not seen any crash cars that look like Hasting's.

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  4. PastoriusMonday, June 24, 2013 5:02:00 am

    I have no idea what I'm looking at.

    All I know if I have never heard of an engine landing 100 feet away from a car. But then, someone told me that's normal.

    Whatever.

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  5. Always On WatchMonday, June 24, 2013 9:04:00 pm

    A blogger at another site made this comment about the Hastings' story:


    The really weasely thing about the Hastings incident is that the video of him speeding through the intersection is not a traffic cam but video from another reporters car!
    Who would randomly shoot video of a traffic intersection?
    And why must we believe that the video was taken at the time of the accident?
    In other words (tin hat time), the video could have been taken earlier of a similar vehicle.

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