Michael Hastings Told He Would Be Hunted Down and Killed over McChrystal Story Friends and family call for independent investigation into journalist’s obvious murder.
Kit Daniels Infowars.com June 27, 2013
U.S. Army brass told Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings that he would be hunted down and killed over his story that lead to General McChrystal’s downfall, according to Hasting’s closest friend in the June 26 bombshell interview on the Alex Jones Show.
Hastings died in Los Angeles on June 18 in an explosive single-car crash that left his fuel efficient Mercedes C250 engulfed in flames which towered above the heights of nearby houses.
First responders found the four-cylinder engine 100 feet away from the crash.
As we reported recently, Biggs told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly that Hastings was working on his “biggest story yet” involving the CIA. The journalist is known to have made a number of powerful enemies.
Biggs also stated on Fox that it was completely out of character for Hastings to be driving at high speeds that early in the morning. But Biggs made even stronger revelations on the Alex Jones Show as he described how well he knew Hastings.
Biggs and Hastings met in 2008 when the journalist came to Afghanistan to cover the daily combat, an assignment only meant to last one week. That week turned into three months.
“You get to learn a lot about a person in one day of combat, let alone three months of being around them,” Biggs said.
Biggs stayed in touch with the journalist after the assignment, which culminated into a strong friendship.
“I remember when the story broke with General McChrystal and he [Hastings] gave me a call and he’s like ‘man, I’m pretty scared,’” Biggs said. “I told him, ‘You have a reason to be, brother. You basically just got a general of a war fired. I’m pretty sure that doesn’t sit too well with him right now.’”
Hastings’ fear was very well-founded as he received severe death threats over the McChrystal story.
“He had been told, if we don’t like what you write, we will hunt you down and kill you,” Biggs said. “For him to say something like that, those are his own words, that’s pretty intense.”
But Hastings continued on with his journalism career and recently began investigating a CIA story which apparently led to his death.
“So last Monday morning I wake up and I get this e-mail from Mike, and usually the e-mails start off ‘hey brother, how’s it going, how’s your family, how are you adjusting to the civilian life’ because I’m out of the military now,” Biggs said.
But in this particular e-mail, Hastings warned that the FBI would be investigating his colleagues and his friends. He also said that he was on a big story and would need to go “off the radar.”
“It just didn’t seem like something that he normally started his e-mail off with,” Biggs said. “When I read it, I just got this horrible feeling, like something’s not right.”
Biggs asked his friends for their opinions on Hastings’ latest e-mail. They all thought it was scary.
Then once Biggs heard about Hastings’ fatal crash, things just didn’t add up for him.
He knew that Hastings contacted a lawyer recently and questioned why an investigative reporter happened to be filming an empty street at four in the morning when he recorded Hastings driving by.
“All these alarms were going off and my gut feeling from day one, from before it happened, I knew that something wasn’t right,” Biggs said.
Alex asked Biggs if his years of combat honed his gut instinct.
“Yeah, I just… just anybody who knows someone and they act out of… out of reason, out of their normal behavior, that should send a red light off in anybody,” Biggs responded.
Alex also asked Biggs why he wanted to go public regarding the death of his friend. Biggs said he contacted the other recipients of Hastings’ e-mail but received little response.
“Somebody’s got to come out and say something,” Biggs said. “Someone’s got to… I can’t be the only person that thinks this is just weird.”
“Mike would do the same thing for me,” Biggs said. “He’s not going to sit back and roll over.”
“I’m not a journalist, I’m not an investigator, I don’t know what steps to take. All I know is that I lost a friend.”
I have been talking to Biggs, nice guy, he is real upset about MH death and is taking this very seriously and has indicated those close to MH, family and friends are also taking it very seriously and have absolutely not ruled out foul play, in fact most of them suspect it at this point. They seem like a good group of people from what I can tell and they, especially Biggs and MH wife, are not going to let this go very easily.
Is it possible to find out if he had a history of reckless driving from either the police or his car insurance company?
Where did he call home, Elf, I know he is from Vermont, did he keep a residence there, did he live in LA full time, see if you can find some answers to those questions, I will look also, and then we can do a court case search and see if we can find any criminal record like speeding tickets and things like that, that stuff is easy to find by looking at county and city court search sites but we have to know what cities and counties he lived in. I havent really paid attention to that part of the story yet so I suppose it is time to do so.
Alchemy » 27 Jun 2013 18:26 wrote:I have been talking to Biggs, nice guy, he is real upset about MH death and is taking this very seriously and has indicated those close to MH, family and friends are also taking it very seriously and have absolutely not ruled out foul play, in fact most of them suspect it at this point. They seem like a good group of people from what I can tell and they, especially Biggs and MH wife, are not going to let this go very easily.
Michael Hastings' widow, Elise Jordan, is also a journalist. According to Biggs:
Here is the link to search for defendants who have been in LA COUNTY court for whatever reason, its the LA COUNTY COURT website, you can pretty much look up the cases of anyone like that, it doesnt give actual case detail but it does tell you what offense they are there for.
The first link is for CIVIL CASES which would likely include traffic voilations etc.
The second link is for CRIMINAL CASES which is for the more serious stuff, wreckless driving would be criminal and not civil.
Keep in mind this is for LA COUNTY and the CITY OF LA, I dont know what city and county he actually lived in, if it is different then just google, for example "Santa Barbara City Court Case Search" and do the same for whatever county SB is in google "Orange County Court Case search." That will bring up the various courts for that city and county, generally speeding tickets and other moving violations are going to be in CITY COURT as civil cases and then the more serious criminal stuff is going to be in a COUNTY COURT.
I havent looked for MH yet but feel free and I will look also.
You can also contact the police depts and request any police report about any case. Generally when I do this I say something akin to "Hi I m a reporter for Brave New World Press and I need some police reports..." etc.
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Alchemy » 27 Jun 2013 18:26 wrote:I have been talking to Biggs, nice guy, he is real upset about MH death and is taking this very seriously and has indicated those close to MH, family and friends are also taking it very seriously and have absolutely not ruled out foul play, in fact most of them suspect it at this point. They seem like a good group of people from what I can tell and they, especially Biggs and MH wife, are not going to let this go very easily.
Michael Hastings' widow, Elise Jordan, is also a journalist. According to Biggs:
Yes Elise is a great journalist in her own right, she is the former speechwriter for Condi Rice which I always thought was interesting being that MH is more of the liberal type, I dont know if his wife is a Condi Rice fan or supporter or if that was simply just a job she had but it is an interesting little twist in the story.
Alchemy » 27 Jun 2013 18:26 wrote:I have been talking to Biggs, nice guy, he is real upset about MH death and is taking this very seriously and has indicated those close to MH, family and friends are also taking it very seriously and have absolutely not ruled out foul play, in fact most of them suspect it at this point. They seem like a good group of people from what I can tell and they, especially Biggs and MH wife, are not going to let this go very easily.
Michael Hastings' widow, Elise Jordan, is also a journalist. According to Biggs:
If you have Twitter, follow @Rambobiggs, that is him, he has an interesting Twitter feed and he will chat you up if you reach out, he is asking everyone who will listen to help him with this.
He is a soldier who met Michael over there during the war and they became great friends.
I mean in the post mentioning him above as someone whose take on anything should be irrelevant.
Covering Biggs is relevant.
Yes indeed, Biggs is the real deal, real torn up about the loss of his friend and convinced he was killed, from speaking to Biggs myself last week I can definitely say this guy is in this for the long haul and is going to make as much noise as he can, he made it very clear that he is not going to be scared or intimidated by anyone and wont back down until he gets to the truth and does something about it, whatever that may be.
Is everyone clear that in McChrystal we are talking about the de facto US commander of deathsquads in Iraq, a major war criminal on historic scale? Do you think one murder means anything to such a man? Obviously he was a very powerful man, with necessarily extensive personal connections, specifically in the field of professional murder. It's not the least far-fetched to think that car-hacking or conventional car tampering was employed as the means of assassinations ordered by this man in Iraq and Afghanistan. And he took what he "accomplished" in Iraq to Afghanistan as the overall campaign commander for the new death squad escalation there, known as the "surge." That's when Hastings's story in Rolling Stone made him switch to whatever gig he now has in the private sector. ("Ended his career" = "forced him to make a fortune as a consultant earlier than planned.") Where is he now?
This isn't enough to float a hypothesis and demand some answers? What the fuck would be?!
No one is pretending car hacking isn't feasible and, according to Clarke, it has been developed by multiple agencies.
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I never really followed up on the Dr David Kelly situation, but this Hastings situation is unprecedented to me. Not including John, Bobby or Martin...but in recent times, say the last two decades, can anyone recall a suspicious death of someone where there was such a strong, clear headed unified push to question the official story? Ie: traction, story with legs, so prominently and soon?
Every single time someone dies in a suspicious and or conveniently timed manner(ie: Gary Caridori one day before tiral or Paul Wellstone right before Iraq war authorization voting) there isnt much muckracking or rabble rousing, and it's usually kept online or privately held beliefs. From now you got his good friend acting as voice for him and those that have questions who he knew in life going on tv, you have freaking Richard Clarke of all people, prominent left alternative(The Young Turks) and right alternative(Alex Jones) covering this daily. Heck Huffpo just did a piece. You have activists online not quieting down. Heck I await Ben Swann's Reality Check on the issue.
In other words, I can't recall one of these suspicious(ly timed) deaths where the questioning actually grew instead of wimpered out. Not in the case of Wellstone, DC Madame, William Colby, Gary Webb, Chris Kyle, Aaron Schwartz, etc. (Not saying all those are suspicious, but people did have questions of the timing) And I admit, some is wishful thinking(I wish there was evidence Philip Marashall was black opted as I hate to believe he turned out to be such a monster) Also I just hope close friends/family/colleagues/sympathetic media who also question Hastings death arent badgered by disrespectful hoaxer types, much like the 9/11 victims family and others were approached by buffoons. Alchemy and everyone on here are the kind of truthseekers I wish the internet was more populated with, as truth be told I walked away from all over online circles of intrigue because of the manic obnoxious nature of a lot of 'conspiracy theorists'.
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JackRiddler » Thu Jun 27, 2013 2:22 pm wrote:Is everyone clear that in McChrystal we are talking about the de facto US commander of deathsquads in Iraq, a major war criminal on historic scale? Do you think one murder means anything to such a man? Obviously he was a very powerful man, with necessarily extensive personal connections, specifically in the field of professional murder. It's not the least far-fetched to think that car-hacking or conventional car tampering was employed as the means of assassinations ordered by this man in Iraq and Afghanistan. And he took what he "accomplished" in Iraq to Afghanistan as the overall campaign commander for the new death squad escalation there, known as the "surge." That's when Hastings's story in Rolling Stone made him switch to whatever gig he now has in the private sector. ("Ended his career" = "forced him to make a fortune as a consultant earlier than planned.") Where is he now?
This isn't enough to float a hypothesis and demand some answers? What the fuck would be?!
No one is pretending car hacking isn't feasible and, according to Clarke, it has been developed by multiple agencies.
Good take, Jack and I am with you, there is plenty of enough "WTF" in this case that floating some alternative ideas to a simple accident is more than reasonable and should be expected from anyone who really cares about MH and what happened to him.
Lets proceed to do just that, lets keep floating some explanations for this horrible event.
Re: Journalist Michael Hastings is dead at 33 by 8bitagent » Thu Jun 27, 2013 2:56 pm
I never really followed up on the Dr David Kelly situation, but this Hastings situation is unprecedented to me. Not including John, Bobby or Martin...but in recent times, say the last two decades, can anyone recall a suspicious death of someone where there was such a strong, clear headed unified push to question the official story? Ie: traction, story with legs, so prominently and soon?
i've pretty much decided in my own mind that this is because we are supposed to know he was killed. and we're supposed to know we can't do a thing about it. sends a very strong message that "they" can and will do whatever they like to those who challenge "them". much like the FBI murdering someone and not even bothering to cover it up.
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I'm curious about "Team America", the coterie of military guys and civilians surrounding him in Afghanistan. Only two are mentioned by name in the Rolling Stone piece: chief of staff Col. Charlie Flynn and Maj. Gen. Bill Mayville, who served as his chief of operations. Maybe there's a list in Hastings book, "The Operators"?
