The Case That Michael Hastings Was Assassinated

Below is a brilliant Corbett Report video laying out existing evidence supporting recent speculation that Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings’ June 18 car accident was most likely foul play on behalf  of the US government.

Hastings thus joins the ranks of Danny Casolaro and Gary Webb, two other courageous journalists who gave their lives for daring to expose the intelligence community’s dirty laundry in the mainstream press.

Hastings is best known for his Rolling Stone expose that led to the firing of General McChrystal, the ISAF Commander in Afghanistan. However he also penned an equally explosive expose regarding General Petraeus, former CIA director, Afghanistan ISAF Commander and Commanding General of Iraq’s multinational force in Iraq. The article, written immediately after his resignation for an extramarital affair, was scathing in its criticism of Petraeus’s dishonest and morally bankrupt conduct of both wars – an approach resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths on both sides. For example, Hastings holds Petraeus personally responsible for instigating the sectarian violence between Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites, which persists to this day.

James Corbett’s video is a moving tribute to Hastings’ courage in confronting the military-intelligence establishment, with recent TV clips in which the reporter angrily challenges Obama’s war on journalists and his suspension of civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.

The film also summarizes important anomalies connected to the so-called car accident:

Hasting emailed Wikileaks and close friends just hours before his death that he was being investigated by the FBI for a new ground-breaking story regarding the CIA and NSA he was about to publish.
Witnesses heard a loud explosion and the car’s engine shot 100 yards down the road.
Witnesses report the car was already on fire before it hit the tree.

It goes on to presents a recent scientific study demonstrating how car computers can be hacked to override driver control of braking and acceleration.

Corbett concludes with an excerpt of an interview Bush’s anti-terrorism czar and cyber terrorism specialist Richard Clarke gave the Huffington Post. During the clip, Clarke asserts that the circumstances of Hastings’ accident are consistent with a cyber attack on his car.

 

 

 

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