Michael Hastings: 5 Conspiracy Theories That DIDN'T Pan Out

[zappaman]

1. Cars don't explode like that. Hastings' car erupted in flames, and neighbors reported hearing an explosion. Some conspiracy theorists suggest this points to a bomb or some other rigging of the vehicle. But there are countless cases each year of vehicles, even modern ones, going up in a ball of fire following high-speed crashes.

Harry B. Ryon of Scottsdale, Arizona, is a former LAPD traffic official who also investigates vehicle collisions. He told us this: "With the engine torn off, the gas lines would rupture, and it would start a fire."

Simple enough. Somehow, however, we think this won't be the last we hear of the conspiracy nation.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/08/michael_hastings_5_conspiracy_theories.php

Oh well...

[dionysus]

1. we need a bullwhip toting, crack investigative journalist to clear this up once and for at. nt

[zappaman]

2. *sigh*

[dionysus]

3. .

[TheTruthBeKnown]

4. Truth

Hastings car had 14 onboard computers all of them hackable. Many on TYT had driven with Hastings and they said he drove like a grandmother and was ultra safe. Something happened that night that terrified him, hence the high rate of speed. Assume an onboard computer(s) were hacked and caused the vehicle to speed uncontrollably and Hastings was trapped behind the wheel of an out of control car. Explosion or no explosion Hastings would've been killed.

Hastings made enemies of a lot of very powerful people. He alone got McCrystal to resign & was investigating other top level stories. To not have any suspicion in his death is not healthy especially so many high level people could have had Hastings killed.

Any computer can be hacked and since those in positions of power could have been involved in Hastings death (murder) this issue should not be lowered to the level as a conspiracy theory. That's exactly what those in power want people to believe. They want people and the inept MSM to discount everything about Hasting's work and his death.

[zappaman]

5. "...and was investigating other top level stories."

Such as?

Where is your evidence that the car was "hacked".

"this issue should not be lowered to the level as a conspiracy theory."

It is if you don't believe the witnesses, videos, family, and friends.

You know accidents happen, right?

[TheTruthBeKnown]

7. Snarky

Yeah I know accidents happen. So do murders. How can you prove the car wasn't hacked. I said the some of the car's 14 onboard computers could've been hacked. Thinking about possibilities is not being a conspiracy theorist. It's being knowledgable and aware. It's sad many choose darkness over having an appetite for the truth.

[zappaman]

9. you didn't answer the question

What "top level stories" was he investigating?

[Incitatus]

19. it looks like he was investingating the director of the CIA for something.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/14/journalist-michael-hastings-reportedly-working-on-story-about-cia-chief-before/


Sorry about the Fox link.


I'm not in the conspiracy camp, or really following this story. The answer to your question was just something I remembered reading a while back.

[dionysus]

6. Alex is that you?

[TheTruthBeKnown]

8. Is that you Ghomert?

Laugh all you want. Being ignorant of what is going on is not bliss. And to not even have the inquisitiveness to want to know the truth is sad. I guess according to naysayers we should eliminate all journalists lest we make those who fear facts feel uncomfortable. Yeah, it's sad.

[dionysus]

12. weak sauce, you can do better.

[Whisp]

15. If you are so sure of what is going on what were those top stories?

Until you get that info and people who will go on record to suport that info, it's nothing but a fantasy.

A fantasy about the President hacking a journalist car to kill him because we know Obama hates all journalists enough to want them all dead.

fuck.

[zappaman]

16. I am still waitng for that answer as well.

I am not aware of any "top stories" he was working on in everything I've read about him.
Was hoping the poster would clue us in, but I have a feeling he just made it up.

[zappaman]

11. William of Ockham, is that you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor from William of Ockham, and in Latin lex parsimoniae) is a principle of parsimony, economy, or succinctness used in logic and problem-solving. It states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. In other words, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

[dionysus]

13. you've unmasked my true identity... THANKS OBAMA.

[pnwmom]

10. His family said he had a recent return to drug use and that one of the drugs

was a hallucinogen. They also said he had had symptoms related to drugs that resembled bipolar disease, including feelings of invincibility -- he had thought he could jump off a building without getting hurt.

I think the family, his wife and brothers, and everyone else who knows him best, are right. The death was a tragic accident.

[DevonRex]

18. Sorry, I don't believe he had 14 on-board computers OR

that because "somebody" said he drove like a grandmother and was ultra safe, that he really did drive like a grandmother.

Or that his "14 on-board computers" were hacked. But keep talking. Its entertaining.

[Generic Brad]

20. People are apparently going to believe whatever they want to believe

The truth and facts be damned. Without objective evidence or facts the conspiracy theorists will just keep flinging nonsense.

Apparently proof is in short supply.

[DevonRex]

22. That they will.

At least it's amusing most of the time.

[SidDithers]

14. DU rec...nt

Sid

[Skip Intro]

17. So it has been decreed and so it will be recorded for all time,

further questioning shall be met with mockery and ridicule.

So sayeth the ptb media, so sayeth we all!

[zappaman]

21. Pretty much.