Another Journalist Dies after Exposing Big Gov Extremes: Michael Hastings Mercedes "Jack-Knifed" on LA Freeway

Another Journalist Dies after Exposing Big Gov Extremes: Michael Hastings Mercedes "Jack-Knifed" on LA Freeway

Another Journalist Dies after Exposing Big Gov Extremes: Michael Hastings Mercedes "Jack-Knifed" on LA Freeway

June 19th, 2013

Another Journalist Dies after Exposing Big Gov Extremes: Michael Hastings Mercedes "Jack-Knifed" on LA Freeway

Posted by: Barry Secrest
Published on June 19th, 2013 @ 03:55:06 pm , using 277 words

Posted in Events and Issues: Credible Resources

A witness said his car “suddenly jackknifed” before crossing the median and hitting a tree, causing a ferocious explosion that reportedly threw the engine block of the brand new Mercedes Hastings was driving 30 or 40 yards from the car."
“It sounded like a bomb went off in the middle of the night,” another witness told the TV station. “The house shook, my windows were rattling.”
Last article:  "Why Democrats Love to Spy on Americans"
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PJ Tatler
By Bryan Preston
Pajamas Media
Journalist Michael Hastings was killed early Tuesday morning in a bizarre car incident in Los Angeles. Hastings, 33, was best known for writing the Rolling Stone story that ended in Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s resignation as head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Hastings’ final story, “Why Democrats Love to Spy on Americans,” was a searing take on the NSA snooping scandal, which Hastings described as “North Korea-esque.” Hastings pulled no punches as he linked the NSA scandal to the Department of Justice’s spying on reporters and the IRS abuse scandal. Hastings built a case that the same Democrats who turned Bush-era anti-terrorism techniques into wedge issues that helped them capture Congress and the White House in 2006 and 2008 were now defending much worse and more widespread spying on American citizens by the Obama administration.

[J]udging by the DOJ’s and FBI’s recent history, it would seem that any new leak case would involve obtaining the phone records of reporters at the Guardian, the Washington Post, employees at various agencies who would have had access to the leaked material, as well as politicians and staffers in Congress—records, we now can safely posit, they already have unchecked and full access to.

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