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Michael Hastings was a well established investigative journalist whose work has been published in Rolling Stone and Buzzfeed and various other top news outlets. He is perhaps best known for exposing General Stanley McChrystal's thoughts on the white house and the various staff who worked therein. Recently Hastings was focusing his efforts on exposing how the Government spies on its people. A day prior to his death Hastings claimed in an email to his colleagues that he needed to lay low and stay off the radar, because he felt that the Feds were following him, and that he was on to a "big story". The very next day he died in a brutal car accident.
here is a summary of his death from Wikipedia.
Michael Hastings died in a single-vehicle automobile crash in his Mercedes C250 Coupé at approximately 4:25 a.m. in the Han**** Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on June 18, 2013. A witness to the crash said that he seemed to be driving at the car's maximum speed before the car fishtailed and crashed into a palm tree. Witnesses described the car's engine being ejected 50 to 60 yards from the scene. Some press reports have described the accident as suspicious, although the Los Angeles Police Department has said there are no signs of foul play.
Earlier the previous day, Hastings indicated that he believed he was being investigated by the FBI. In an email to colleagues, which was copied to and released by Hastings' friend, Army Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs, Hastings said that he was "onto a big story", that he needed to "go off the radar", and that the FBI might interview them. WikiLeaks announced that Hastings had also contacted one of its lawyers a few hours prior to the crash, and the LA Times reported that he was preparing new reports on the CIA at the time of his demise. The FBI released a statement denying that Hastings was being investigated.
Hastings was eulogized by co-workers at Buzzfeed, media figures such as Christopher Hayes and Rachel Maddow and others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...gs_(journalist)
here is a summary of his death from Wikipedia.
Michael Hastings died in a single-vehicle automobile crash in his Mercedes C250 Coupé at approximately 4:25 a.m. in the Han**** Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on June 18, 2013. A witness to the crash said that he seemed to be driving at the car's maximum speed before the car fishtailed and crashed into a palm tree. Witnesses described the car's engine being ejected 50 to 60 yards from the scene. Some press reports have described the accident as suspicious, although the Los Angeles Police Department has said there are no signs of foul play.
Earlier the previous day, Hastings indicated that he believed he was being investigated by the FBI. In an email to colleagues, which was copied to and released by Hastings' friend, Army Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs, Hastings said that he was "onto a big story", that he needed to "go off the radar", and that the FBI might interview them. WikiLeaks announced that Hastings had also contacted one of its lawyers a few hours prior to the crash, and the LA Times reported that he was preparing new reports on the CIA at the time of his demise. The FBI released a statement denying that Hastings was being investigated.
Hastings was eulogized by co-workers at Buzzfeed, media figures such as Christopher Hayes and Rachel Maddow and others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...gs_(journalist)
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