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The revelation that Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was working on a story about the CIA before his death and had contacted a Wikileaks lawyer about being under investigation by the FBI hours before his car exploded into flames has bolstered increasingly valid claims that the 33-year-old was assassinated.<\/p>\n
Hastings died early Tuesday morning in Hollywood when his car allegedly hit a tree at high speed. The Los Angeles Coroner\u2019s office has not yet been able to officially identify the body as Hastings because it is so badly burned.<\/p>\n
Skeptics of the official narrative have highlighted eyewitness accounts which state that Hastings\u2019 Mercedes \u201cexploded\u201d.<\/p>\n
Images of the vehicle appear to show more damage to the rear, around the area of the fuel tank, than the front, leading to speculation that a car bomb which ignited the fuel could have been responsible for the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo matter how you slice this particular pie, a Mercedes is not just going to explode into flames without a little assistance,\u201d\u00a0writes freelance journalist Jim Stone<\/a>. \u201cCar fires in new cars happen for three main reasons \u2013 running the engine out of oil, or running the engine out of coolant, or after an absolutely huge car mangling accident, having the hot side of the battery short out against the frame before it reaches the fuse panel. And for all 3 of those normal reasons, which account for virtually all car fires in modern cars, the fire would have started in the engine compartment, progressed slowly, and scorched the hell out of the paint before ever reaching the gas tank. That clean paint is the be all tell all, Michael Hastings was murdered, and the rest is detail.\u201d<\/p>\n Stone also questions why a white sheet has been draped over the vehicle in the image below.<\/p>\n The questions surrounding the precise nature of the \u201caccident\u201d that killed Hastings are given more weight by the fact that the journalist had made enemies within both the FBI and the CIA.<\/p>\n \u201cMichael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him,\u201d the official Wikileaks Twitter account\u00a0announced yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hastings \u201chad the Central Intelligence Agency in his sights\u201d and was set to release an article exposing the agency,\u00a0according to L.A. Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Obama administration and the Justice Department have openly claimed the authority to assassinate American citizens anywhere in the world if they are deemed a national security threat. A number of American citizens have already been killed as a result of this policy. Is it really that crazy to suggest that Michael Hastings was merely the latest victim of this doctrine?<\/p>\n The\u00a0New York Daily News highlights<\/a>\u00a0the fact that Hastings had received multiple death threats before his demise.<\/p>\n Following his role in bringing down Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, Hastings was told by a McChrystal staffer, \u201cWe\u2019ll hunt you down and kill you if we don\u2019t like what you write.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhenever I\u2019d been reporting around groups of dudes whose job it was to kill people, one of them would usually mention that they were going to kill me,\u201d said Hastings.<\/p>\n Hastings was renowned for being \u201conly interested in writing stories someone didn\u2019t want him to write \u2013 often his subjects,\u201d according to Buzzflash editor Ben Smith, adding, \u201cHe knew that there are certain truths that nobody has an interest in speaking, ones that will make you both your subjects and their enemies uncomfortable. They\u2019re stories that don\u2019t get told because nobody in power has much of an interest in telling them.\u201d<\/p>\n The fact that Hastings had made a plethora of enemies as a result of his hard-hitting investigative journalism has prompted a deluge of online comment speculating that the writer\u2019s \u201ccar crash\u201d was no accident.<\/p>\n \u201cHastings\u2019 wreck might make sense on the freeway, but I doubt he\u2019d be dumb enough to go 100 mph on Highland. He\u2019s not some dumb college kid,\u201d said one commenter on a local news site.<\/p>\n \u201cA warning to other journalists to not dig too deep,\u201d another Reddit user wrote. \u201cStick with the party line if you want a long, happy life.\u201d<\/p>\n If this was an isolated incident then there wouldn\u2019t be so many questions swirling about Hastings\u2019 death. However, he\u2019s certainly not the first individual to go up against the military-industrial complex and wind up in a coffin.<\/p>\n Other journalists who have proven to be a thorn in the side of the establishment have met the same fate, from\u00a0Andrew Breitbart<\/a>\u00a0who was about to release damaging pre-election information about Barack Obama before he collapsed and died in strange circumstances, to\u00a0Gary Webb<\/a>, the Pullitzer prize-winning author who exposed the CIA\u2019s involvement in the drug trade and subsequently committed \u201csuicide\u201d after apparently shooting himself in the head \u2014 twice.<\/p>\n More recently, Ibragim Todashev, friend of accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnev, was\u00a0shot in the head six times by the FBI<\/a>, who initially claimed Todashev was armed but later had to admit this was a lie. Speculation has raged that Todashev was assassinated because he had knowledge about the Boston bombings which the feds didn\u2019t want to see the light of public scrutiny.<\/p>\n Despite his actions, the murder of Christopher Dorner, who was burned to death by LAPD officers while hiding inside a cabin, shows that authorities will not hesitate to resort to such methods.<\/p>\n It\u2019s virtually inevitable that the true cause of Michael Hastings death will never be known and that the mainstream media will demonize anyone who questions the official narrative as a conspiracy theorist. Meanwhile, journalists and others who pose a threat to the military-industrial complex will continue to die in bizarre \u201caccidents\u201d that stink of foul play.<\/p>\n *********************<\/p>\n Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for\u00a0Infowars.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Prison Planet.com<\/a>. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This article was posted: Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 10:09 am<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/static.prisonplanet.com\/p\/images\/june2013\/200613car.jpg\")
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