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Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash

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Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash

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Post by lesslaw »

Or, his murderers sent it as a smoke screen.

It doesn't say "an electronically signed email" using Hastings' PGP key, it doesn't say it was DKIM signed.

    telnet hotmail.com 25
    MAIL FROM: micheal.hastings@domain.com
    RCPT TO: wikileakseditor@hotmail.com
    Subject: I'm going out for a walk

    I might be some time. Don't come looking for me.

    .
    ^D

Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash

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Post by snowwrestler »

sage_joch wrote: post #10
corresation wrote: post #5

Another possibility is that he had a nervous breakdown or substance abuse episode, leading to both the paranoid emails and the irrational vehicle operations. Obviously I'm not saying that's the case, but the extremely irrational driving goes fits a theory of paranoid delusions (brought on by any number of mechanisms), just as the hacked car system goes with about to uncover something big.

Yeah, we really don't know. But I'm extremely uncomfortable by the fact that foul play is a real possibility. We already know that the federal government is operating largely in secret and without regard to the law (their insistence that are indeed following their own secret set of laws doesn't provide me much solace). We already know that various press organizations have been wiretapped. I feel like I've woken up in…

Foul play is always a possibility, but it takes evidence to make it real. All we have now is a car crash, a reporter working on a story, and an email. There are lots of car crashes, and lots of reporters working on big stories--many on the same stories Hastings was pursuing.

We can't rule out foul play but I'm not ready, personally, to rule it in either. There's just not enough there.

Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash

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Post by kiba »

cjambassador392 wrote: post #15
corresation wrote: post #5

Another possibility is that he had a nervous breakdown or substance abuse episode, leading to both the paranoid emails and the irrational vehicle operations. Obviously I'm not saying that's the case, but the extremely irrational driving goes fits a theory of paranoid delusions (brought on by any number of mechanisms), just as the hacked car system goes with about to uncover something big.

I think given the fact that the US is literally Nazi Germany, it's pretty much assured that the US assassinated him for what he knew. I'm so glad that these kind of pieces are being upvoted here so we can finally stop talking about all that technology bullshit. Upvote on the left if you agree.

I think given the fact that the US is literally Nazi Germany

Literally is metaphorically literally?

I hate it when people abuse language like that, even though usage dictates conventions.

Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash

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Post by ForrestN »

At the time it was widely reported that the story he was working on was related to a socialite from Florida named Jill Kelley, but it looks like that isn't true:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/michael-hastings-ji...

I won't pretend I read all of his work, but whenever I saw his name attached to something I was impressed. For example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3eKaXVe-7A

Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash

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Post by tcdent »

wyck wrote: post #14
corresation wrote: post #5

Another possibility is that he had a nervous breakdown or substance abuse episode, leading to both the paranoid emails and the irrational vehicle operations. Obviously I'm not saying that's the case, but the extremely irrational driving goes fits a theory of paranoid delusions (brought on by any number of mechanisms), just as the hacked car system goes with about to uncover something big.

This first question that comes to mind is what was he doing driving at 4:30 in the morning. His friends describe him as a "grandma diver" so why was he driving so fast and blowing red lights on a residential street? Did he ever display this type of behaviour before? Another question is.. how does a well made car burst into flames so quickly.

> how does a well made car burst into flames so quickly?

I always wonder about this, it's not like a car fire is anything like hollywood makes it out to be.

Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash

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Post by potatolicious »

kiba wrote: post #24
cjambassador392 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think given the fact that the US is literally Nazi Germany, it's pretty much assured that the US assassinated him for what he knew. I'm so glad that these kind of pieces are being upvoted here so we can finally stop talking about all that technology bullshit. Upvote on the left if you agree.

I think given the fact that the US is literally Nazi Germany Literally is metaphorically literally? I hate it when people abuse language like that, even though usage dictates conventions.

Not to mention the US is also not metaphorically Nazi Germany. There's bad shit going on, but to equivocate the current state of the US to the Third Reich demonstrates either a supremely poor understanding of history, or hyperbolic melodrama, or both.

Re: Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash

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Post by snowwrestler »

kiba wrote: post #24
cjambassador392 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think given the fact that the US is literally Nazi Germany, it's pretty much assured that the US assassinated him for what he knew. I'm so glad that these kind of pieces are being upvoted here so we can finally stop talking about all that technology bullshit. Upvote on the left if you agree.

I think given the fact that the US is literally Nazi Germany Literally is metaphorically literally? I hate it when people abuse language like that, even though usage dictates conventions.

Pretty sure the parent was being sarcastic.
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