{"id":51156,"date":"2013-07-17T23:29:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/video-was-journalist-michael-hastings-murdered-police-and-firefighters-on-the-scene-told-not-to-comment\/51156\/"},"modified":"2013-07-17T23:29:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:29:39","slug":"video-was-journalist-michael-hastings-murdered-police-and-firefighters-on-the-scene-told-not-to-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/video-was-journalist-michael-hastings-murdered-police-and-firefighters-on-the-scene-told-not-to-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Was Journalist Michael Hastings Murdered? Police and Firefighters on the Scene Told not to Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Political Blind Spot reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mercedes Benz debunks the theory that the car of\u00a0Wikileaking journalist<\/a>\u00a0Michael Hastings \u201cjust blew up\u201d upon impact. Journalists have consulted leading University Physics professors in the Los Angeles area, who all agreed that the placement of the engine defied expectations of a normal crash scenario.<\/p>\n

Police and reporters on the scene confirm there were NO skid marks, both explaining the videos of the speeding car. (Gag order issued for Police and Firefighters responders to scene of Wikileaking Journalist assassination<\/a>, \u00a0The Political Blind Spot\u00a0July 11, 2013)<\/p>\n

The crime scene has made investigative journalists as well as former military doubt Hastings\u2019 car crash was an accident and claim that Michael Hasting\u2019s car could have been manipulated through remote control. Adding to the murder suspicions is an email Hastings wrote to his coworkers only a few hours before he died:<\/p>\n

Subject: FBI Investigation,<\/strong>\u00a0re: NSA\u00a0<\/strong>Hey (redacted names) \u2013 the Feds are interviewing my \u201cclose friends and associates.\u201d Perhaps if the authorities arrive \u201cBuzzFeed GQ,\u201d er HQ, may be wise to immediately request legal counsel before any conversations or interviews about our news-gathering practices or related journalism issues.<\/p>\n

Also: I\u2019m onto a big story, and need to go off the rada[r] for a bit.<\/p>\n

All the best, and hope to see you all soon. (Melissa Jeltsen, \u00a0Michael Hastings Sent Email About FBI Probe Hours Before Death<\/a>, Huffington Post,\u00a0June 23, 2013)<\/p>\n

WhoWhatWhy<\/a> published a lengthy article on July 14 in which author Michael Krikorian quotes<\/a>\u00a0\u201dTerry Hopkins, a former U.S. Navy military policeman who served in Afghanistan\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen an explosion like that\u2026 I\u2019ve seen military vehicles explode, but never quite like that. Look, here\u2019s a reporter who brought down a general. He\u2019s sending out emails saying he\u2019s being watched. It\u2019s four in the morning and his car explodes? Come on, you have to be na\u00c3\u00afve not to at least consider it wasn\u2019t an accident.\u201d (Michael Krikorian\u00a0and\u00a0David J. Krajicek,\u00a0The Michael Hastings Wreck\u2014Video Evidence Only Deepens the Mystery<\/a>, WhoWhatWhy, July 14, 2013)<\/p>\n

The Political Blind\u00a0Spot<\/a>\u00a0states further:<\/p>\n

The most\u00a0traditional<\/em>\u00a0explanation is that the breaks were cut, but the \u201cremote control\u201d hacking of the vehicle has proven exceedingly easy in recent years.<\/p>\n

More disturbing still, perhaps is that a gag order has also been placed on cops and firefighters who both responded to and investigated the crash, which occurred in the early hours of June 18 in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u2018Police and firefighters in Los Angeles have been ordered not to speak to the media about the deadly crash involving Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, fueling speculation that some form of cover-up could be underway.\u2019<\/p>\n

Find out more in the video report below\u2026<\/p>\n

Republished with permission from: Global Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Political Blind Spot reports: Mercedes Benz debunks the theory that the car of\u00a0Wikileaking journalist\u00a0Michael Hastings \u201cjust blew up\u201d upon impact. Journalists have consulted leading University Physics professors in the Los Angeles area, who all agreed that the placement of the engine defied expectations of a normal crash scenario. Police and reporters on the scene […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}