Journalist Michael Hastings is dead at 33

[Nordic]

I wish Elise Jordan seemed more the grieving widow and had a different career history.


Take a gander at Elise Jordan's bio at wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elise_Jordan

"Jordan served as a director for communications in the National Security Council from 2008-09. She worked in the White House Office of Presidential Speechwriting, at the U.S. Embassy, Baghdad and for the Commanding General's Strategic Advisory Group at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, as well as speechwriter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.[2]

Jordan has been a commentator at CTV, BBC, National Public Radio, Fox Business Network, and a regular guest on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN.

Jordan's articles about politics have been featured in Marie Claire, The New York Post, The Atlantic.com, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard and the National Review Online. In 2007 she worked with press and communications strategy for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan with the National Security Council. Elise Hastings is part of the advisory board to the Girls 20 Summit, a summit for young women from G20 nations and the African Union and UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee."

Yeah ....

It'll be very interesting to see where her career goes after all of this.

Sure makes you wonder what her role might have been from the very beginning.

[8bitagent]

"My Gut Here Is That This Was Just A Tragic Accident".

You know, seeing her personality and demeanor...and her pretty deep workings with the powers that be...I'll just say Hastings and her was an odd pairing. Is there some
sort of sick side of the deep state/PTP that INTENTIONALLY leaks stuff to the Scahill, Hastings and Sy Hersh's of the world? I believe these reporters are honest,
but maybe they're being played by the PTP themselves...like they want this stuff out in the public? This Elise Jordan seems about as insider as one can get for a socialite,
which just seems contrary to Hastings rabble rousing ways. Maybe its a Carville/Matalin thing?

I wish Elise Jordan seemed more the grieving widow and had a different career history.


Take a gander at Elise Jordan's bio at wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elise_Jordan

"Jordan served as a director for communications in the National Security Council from 2008-09. She worked in the White House Office of Presidential Speechwriting, at the U.S. Embassy, Baghdad and for the Commanding General's Strategic Advisory Group at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, as well as speechwriter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.[2]

I know they say opposites attract, but wow.

[8bitagent]

I wish Elise Jordan seemed more the grieving widow and had a different career history.


Take a gander at Elise Jordan's bio at wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elise_Jordan

"Jordan served as a director for communications in the National Security Council from 2008-09. She worked in the White House Office of Presidential Speechwriting, at the U.S. Embassy, Baghdad and for the Commanding General's Strategic Advisory Group at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, as well as speechwriter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.[2]

Jordan has been a commentator at CTV, BBC, National Public Radio, Fox Business Network, and a regular guest on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN.

Jordan's articles about politics have been featured in Marie Claire, The New York Post, The Atlantic.com, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard and the National Review Online. In 2007 she worked with press and communications strategy for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan with the National Security Council. Elise Hastings is part of the advisory board to the Girls 20 Summit, a summit for young women from G20 nations and the African Union and UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee."

Yeah ....

It'll be very interesting to see where her career goes after all of this.

Sure makes you wonder what her role might have been from the very beginning.

I had read they had only been married a short while? Again, not trying to suggest anything, just I had no idea how deep state connected she was. Also her
demeanor in the Morgan interview...well, yeah

[justdrew]

Snowden also told Gellman that until the articles were published, the journalists working with him would also be at mortal risk from the United States Intelligence Community "if they think you are the single point of failure that could stop this disclosure and make them the sole owner of this information

[barracuda]

Jordan served as a director for communications in the National Security Council from 2008-09.

NSC = the creators, keepers and dispositioners of the disposition matrix.

She worked...for the Commanding General's Strategic Advisory Group at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan

Commanding General = McChrystal (June 15, 2009), then Petraeus (July 4, 2010).

Jordan first went to NATO HQ Kabul in 2008.

Hmm. It really would be something insanely lowdown if Jordan had been positioned as Hastings' handler by a Commanding General's team.

I wish Elise Jordan seemed more the grieving widow...

I'm gonna decline to assess her inner emotional state based upon her (adorable) camera demeanor, and wonder instead why she decided to show up on the airwaves now, and then wonder a bit more whether Army Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs has been entirely straight with us. Wasn't it Biggs who told the world Jordan was convinced of foul play and etcetera?

Strange that she and Hastings seem to have had professional relations with Morgan. He's such a cocksucking cat's ass.

[Forgetting2]

In the full video with Morgan, Hastings pretty well pisses off Morgan. It was posted on page two of the thread by Luther Blissett. Here it is again - it's just so great to watch Hastings tear Kimmet a new asshole. In light of the contentiousness between Hastings and Morgan, it feels weird to watch this new vid with Jordan, (and it's truncated clip which removes much of the meat out of the full video.) Is she playing the game or does she believe the game?

Hastings must not have seen Jordan's affiliations as a problem. He must have know all about them, or at the very least what we know here and then some.

If Biggs is on the level (I believe he was the one who said she suspected foul play, as barracuda suggested), then could this be a keep your enemies closer kind of move? An attempt to throw people off her investigation? Or is she actually giving up on the idea of foul play?

Biggs doesn't seem disingenuous, to me anyways. Though I think he could be duped or used in some manner.

Questions, questions.

[elfismiles]

FWIW, if anything...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oej5yC5haRE

Most Powerful Mafia Kills Michael Hastings
Infowars.com
Aug 8, 2013

The reaction of police in the death of a key witness in the trial of an accused mafia leader is very much like their reaction to the death of Michael Hastings — move along there’s nothing to see here. And like the investigation of the death of the witness, the death of Michael Hastings will be solved when outside groups push for an honest investigation.

This article was posted: Thursday, August 8, 2013 at 5:18 am

http://www.infowars.com/mafia-hits-special-report/

[8bitagent]

Really good video. He should be hosting Prisonplanet tv, not blowhard AJ.

Anyways, I think we all said it from day one: If this had been someone connected to, testifying against OR reporting on the mafia...EVERYONE would
assume it was a mob hit even if the investigators said no foul play.

BUT, since his adversary was the government, and we got a "loveable Democratic leadership", questioning Hastings death is crazy!

[Hammer of Los]

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Don't the PTB always set troublemakers up with girlfriends?

I could name quite a few. Shayler and Robin Cook, maybe even Harold Wilson.

I'd like mine to be slim, youngish (I don't want to be ageist, but under 40 would be nice), athletic, highly intelligent and enormously well read in philosophy and religion, occidental and oriental, exoteric and esoteric. Psychic abilities would be nice, too.

And I'd rather they weren't trained assassins.

Thanks for your time.

You know where to find me.

On edit: I keep addin' stuff on edit! Like maybe they might be a talented gymnast too, and into role playing games. And have a highly developed sense of justice.

Maybe know a little kung fu.

Or karate even.

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[Hammer of Los]

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Hastings must not have seen Jordan's affiliations as a problem. He must have know all about them, or at the very least what we know here and then some.

Love is blind.

And deaf.

It's difficult to say what he knew or didn't know.

We don't know what she told him.

They were married only two years.

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[Luther Blissett]

Ugh why would you call a recently widowed woman a "Stepford Wife." There are many ways to investigate his death without resorting to that kind of thing.

I can't wrap my head around their relationship, but at least there are other avenues to explore.

[elfismiles]

Agreed ... he most likely used that terminology because of who he works for, ie aj. Plus their target audience.

Why isn't anyone suggesting Biggs is a liar? Mr. David Knight and the infowars crew haven't revealed their alleged insider's id but if it aint more than Biggs its his word against her own.

Not saying we can't / shouldn't be suspicious of the widow but by doing so we're back to the whole, "that parent / partner doesn't seem grieved enuf - they must be a crisis actor or in-on-it" crapola.

Ugh why would you call a recently widowed woman a "Stepford Wife." There are many ways to investigate his death without resorting to that kind of thing.

I can't wrap my head around their relationship, but at least there are other avenues to explore.

[elfismiles]

Not sure if this is a good source:

http://intellihub.com/2013/08/06/feds-v ... his-death/
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Well, if you read the byline it's a Paul Joseph Watson Infowars Alex Jones article reprinted at IntelliHub ... and now also at Global Research:

http://www.infowars.com/feds-visited-mi ... his-death/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/feds-visit ... th/5345428

They (AJ's Infowars crew) aren't saying who this friend of the family is ... though it could just be Biggs, right?

The widow would likely know if "Feds" visited their home, right?

Still coulda been fake-feds, MIB, posers from the NSA, or JSOC, or anybody with a fake badge/ID.

I do think the FBI are likely investigating now, since Jason Leopold is suing them and if the FBI believes its own story that they weren't investigating him then they should be investigating whomever was posing as one of their own.

And then there's the whole "FBI ID'd the body with their fingerprint data" story...

Michael Hastings: FBI Records Lead to Positive ID
By Dennis Romero Thu., Jun. 20 2013 at 12:57 PM
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013 ... _crash.php

So, wtf?

I assume it's the FBI who vetts journalists for embedding in war zones right? so they probably already had his prints for that?

[lyrimal]

Maybe Hastings married a spook because he too was/is a spook.

Are not the military and intelligence agencies at constant odds with one another? If Hastings was/is a spook, it makes sense he'd be involved with taking down one of the military's top officers. It'd also help explain the level of access he accomplished.

Is it not curious that such access would be made available to him, given his then quite recent history of being engaged to an anti-war, democracy activist, supposedly killed by the insurgency? Were there not more 'qualified' assignees?

From what I understand, Parhamovich was not a spook. From what I understand, she was committed to helping the Iraqis. It is interesting that Hastings would lose a loved one in such a way, become disillusioned, then run into the arms of an unmistakeable spook.

In reading about Parhamovich's death, she seemed targeted, not a mere casualty of the insurgency.

Perhaps Hastings was the spook in his relationship with Parhamovich.

With all due respect to truth-in-hiding, wherever it may be.

[elfismiles]

Andi Parhamovich's Boyfriend (Video)
January 19, 2007 1:29 PM

Only On The Web: Michael Hastings, the boyfriend of the American civilian who was killed recently in Iraq, speaks to CBS News about his girlfriend. Hastings is a Baghdad-based news reporter.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2380309n

Journalist Michael Hastings Interview: The Reporter Who Took Down Stanley McChrystal (2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIyWu6350lA