WikiLeaks says Michael Hastings contacted it just before his death. Are they implying he was murdered?

WikiLeaks just threw some gasoline onto the conspiracy fire. On Wednesday night, they Tweeted: “Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.”

What exactly are they trying to say?

Michael Hastings was a much admired freelance journalist who covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and helped to bring down General Stanley McChrystal. He was tragically killed this week in a car crash in Los Angeles, after his car hit a tree. Hastings is believed to have been alone in the vehicle.

Hastings has certainly been in contact with WikiLeaks before. In 2012 he wrote a profile of Julian Assange for Rolling Stone in which he asked tough questions – but the overall tone is sympathetic. Hastings appeared willing to accept that the US government might have targeted Assange in an effort to discredit him; the interview also highlights the failure of mainstream media outlets to expose mistakes made by the US military and generally permits Assange to push his side of the story. Hastings’ empathy for WikiLeaks ties together the deceased journalist, Julian Assange and (through Assange) the leaker Bradley Manning. You can throw Edward Snowden into that mix because he, too, is an admirer of WikiLeaks. And Hastings’ last article was about the evils of the NSA – which ended with the tantalising line, “Perhaps more information will soon be forthcoming.” Glenn Greenwald Tweeted a link to the piece after Hastings' death. Of such connections are conspiracy theories made. In the minds of the highly imaginative, that is.

So what is WikiLeaks trying to say with this Tweet? Is it simply priming us for a revelation about why Hastings was being investigated? Or is it trying to imply that there’s some link between Hastings contacting Jennifer Robinson and the journalist’s death? If so, we might have – in the words of Michael Moynihan – a peg for yet another kind of truther.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timsta...e-was-murdered/

Conspiracy theories surrounding Hastings’ death abound

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/20/conspi...hastings-death/

(excerpted)

The 33-year-old journalist died in a wreck in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles earlier this week. The engine of his Mercedes was fond 100 feet away and his body was burned beyond recognition.

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For many conspiracy theorists, a major point of speculation are the sensitive stories Hastings was pursuing before his tragic death.

The LA Times reported that Hastings was researching a story involving Jill Kelley, the woman who played a key role in revealing the affair between General David Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell.

Another source said Hastings was also looking into the imprisonment of Barrett Brown, a journalist with ties to the hacker group Anonymous.

The group pressuring for Brown’s release wrote that Hastings believed his calls with Barrett were being recorded, ominously suggesting that “the circumstances surrounding his death leave many questions unanswered.”

The FBI has denied that Hastings’ death was ever under investigation. The LAPD has said that no foul play is suspected in Hastings’ death.

An investigation into the crash is underway.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/20/conspi.../#ixzz2WqpU0R1B

In this day and age one would have to be purposefully ignorant to not question what the truth is about almost anything that occurs!