Investigation: Who Killed Michael Hastings?

[Jesus Malverde]

Hours before journalist Hasting's deadly car crash, he suspected his car's system had been hacked.

Early in the morning on June 18, a brand new Mercedes C250 coupe was driving through the Melrose intersection on Highland Avenue in Hollywood when suddenly, out of nowhere, it sped up. According to an eye-witness, the car accelerated rapidly, bounced several times then fishtailed out of control before it slammed into a palm tree and burst into flames, ejecting its engine some 200 feet away.

A witness, Jose Rubalcalva, whose house stood adjacent to the crash, told Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks news network that no one could approach the burning car because it kept exploding. In a simulated full-frontal crash of a 2013 C250 coupe, the car doesn’t explode on impact nor does it launch its engine 200 feet.

In fact, said Nael Issa, a Mercedes Benz dealer in Long Beach, “The car has a crumble zone, so when it crashes it goes in like an accordion. And in some cases the engine drops down, so it doesn’t go into you.”

The driver in the fatal crash was Michael Hastings, a 33-year-old crack investigative reporter for Rolling Stone magazine, whose June 2010 article, “The Runaway General,” exposed the behind-the-scenes failure of top U.S. General Stanley McChrystal’s counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan—and, even more damagingly, revealed McChrystal’s mocking attitude toward the Obama administration, which ultimately led to the general’s resignation.

Four months after Hastings’s so-called accident, and despite scant coverage in the mainstream media, new facts and evidence continue to emerge raising serious unanswered questions about whether the journalist was assassinated, the breadth of unconventional cyber-techniques that may have been used, and who might have been responsible.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/killed-michael-hastings/171386/

“The government empowers these private individuals and corporations to do almost everything they want,” continued Uygur, “including hiring them to kill people. And you’re going to be surprised when they keep doing that with the same impunity they’ve always had? It’s only a matter of time.”

[Dr Hobbitstein]

1. I'll bite...

It was a tree that killed him.

[Ace Acme]

2. His neighbor said he was afraid to drive his car.

She said he asked to borrow her Volvo that night, and she refused to lend it to him.

Then in the morning she learned that he was dead.

The University of Washington has demonstrated the ability to hack these systems and control a car from a laptop. Richard Clarke said the incident was entirely consistent with a cyber-terrorist attack.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

3. He was also on drugs again...

Sometimes, an accident is just an accident. This is one of those times. Actually, MOST times, an accident is just an accident.

Cyber-terrorist attack, my ass.

[Ace Acme]

4. Racing down the street at 75 mph is no ordinary accident

75 mph, and wanted to borrow his neighbor's car.
http://www.laweekly.com/2013-08-22/news/michael-hastings-crash/

LA Times, "Authorities did not believe the drugs were a contributing factor in the crash." http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/20/local/la-me-ln-michael-hastings-detox-crash-20130820

Richard Clarke is a cyber-terrorism expert. What exactly are your credentials in the field? You never heard the expression "Make it look like an accident"?

[Dr Hobbitstein]

5. Racing down the street at 75MPH is reckless...

It gets people killed. Matter of fact, it killed Michael Hastings.

Richard Clarke NEVER said this WAS cyber-terrorism... Matter of fact, he SPECIFICALLY said he was NOT saying that. He said that it COULD be consistent with, and that it was BELIEVABLE some countries MAY have that technology. I capitalized some keywords for you to look up the definitions for.

What are your credentials? You believe Hastings was murdered, 9/11 was an inside job, and that nazi lesbian hookers abducted JFK, forced him into weight loss programs, then assassinated him. I believe in real life and cold hard facts.

EDIT: Fixed typo

[Ace Acme]

6. If you know what killed Michael Hastings, you must be very high up

You know that no US agency did it, and you have had Hastings under such tight surveillance that you know that no foreign agency did it and no agencies employed my military contractors did it.

I doubt you are that high up. I think you just believe you have knowledge that's impossible for you to have.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-car-hacked_n_3492339.html

Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke told The Huffington Post that what is known about the single-vehicle crash is "consistent with a car cyber attack."

Clarke said, "There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers" -- including the United States -- know how to remotely seize control of a car.

"What has been revealed as a result of some research at universities is that it's relatively easy to hack your way into the control system of a car, and to do such things as cause acceleration when the driver doesn't want acceleration, to throw on the brakes when the driver doesn't want the brakes on, to launch an air bag," Clarke told The Huffington Post. "You can do some really highly destructive things now, through hacking a car, and it's not that hard."

"So if there were a cyber attack on the car -- and I'm not saying there was," Clarke added, "I think whoever did it would probably get away with it."

[Ace Acme]

7. My what a fine collection of straw barbies you have!

You believe you know things you can not possibly know, and you believe I believe things that I don't. Thanks for showing where you're coming from. You'd better quit now before you show it even worse.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

8. ..

[Ace Acme]

9. Is that what passes for wit where you come from?

I warned you that you were going to make it worse.