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Michael Hastings Sent Email About FBI Probe Hours Before His

Post by Raggedyann » 06-22-2013 05:51 PM

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

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/2 ... 84118.html
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Post by Fan » 06-22-2013 11:06 PM

the No Agenda guys go into this in the last show... it definitely smells very very stinky.
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Post by Riddick » 06-23-2013 12:37 AM

How is it guys like Hastings die at age 33 and guys like Henry Kissinger live to see 90 or more?

Maybe it's two old sayings at work...
"Only the good die young" and "Dead men tell no tales"

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Post by Fan » 06-23-2013 12:46 AM

The NA guys said it sounded like a Clinton hit.
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Post by Riddick » 06-23-2013 12:52 AM

I thought their M.O. was to make it look like suicide.

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Post by Fan » 06-23-2013 01:02 AM

Riddick wrote: I thought their M.O. was to make it look like suicide.
no, they like to "make an example" - they are gangsters.
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Post by Dude111 » 06-24-2013 02:18 AM

Fan wrote: the No Agenda guys go into this in the last show... it definitely smells very very stinky.
We all know what most likely happend!!!!!

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Post by Raggedyann » 06-24-2013 02:21 AM

Riddick wrote: I thought their M.O. was to make it look like suicide.

They stopped being polite years ago.
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Post by kbot » 06-24-2013 07:42 PM

Major "coinkydink"..........

It's not like this sort of thing hasn't happened before. Looks like out "intelligence" bureaus are becoming unhinged.

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Post by voguy » 06-24-2013 07:45 PM

kbot wrote: Major "coinkydink"..........

It's not like this sort of thing hasn't happened before. Looks like out "intelligence" bureaus are becoming unhinged.


Perhaps because they are being exposed. When someone is about to get caught, they often panic. When they panic, they do stupid things.
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Post by BenSlain » 06-25-2013 02:16 AM

It make sense that now that the country is being run by Chicago politics that Chicago type politics things are going to happen. This is nothing new.
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Post by kbot » 06-25-2013 05:37 AM

Maybe THIS is what was meant by "transparency"...........

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