A journalist and a researcher have sued the Justice Department for access to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s records on the late journalist Michael Hastings.

The lawsuit follows the FBI’s failure to respond to separate Freedom of Information Act requests for records on Hastings submitted by journalist Jason Leopold of al-Jazeera and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Ryan Shapiro.
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In the hours before his death, which was ruled an accident by the Los Angeles Police Department, Hastings emailed Wikileaks’ lawyer Jennifer Robinson that he was being investigated by the federal government.
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On July 24, Forbes revealed that computer security researcher team Chris Miller and Chris Valasek could wirelessly manipulate a moving automobile with a laptop.

Miller and Valasek’s work served to bolster speculation that Hastings’s vehicle was hijacked via a cyber attack, resulting in his tragic death on June 18.

Hastings rose to prominence for his expose in Rolling Stone magazine on now-retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal that ultimately lead to the general’s resignation.

Hastings also exposed an illegal U.S. Army psychological operation directed against U.S. senators visiting Afghanistan. The operation was intended to influence the legislators to appropriate more funding to the war effort.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/29/lawsui...chael-hastings/