My Tribute to the Late Michael Hastings
This 11th anniversary of the tragic death of a revolutionary journalist, I'm reflecting on how it was always going to lead to January 6th.
Portions of this article are found in an original thread posted to my X account here: https://x.com/GusQuixote/status/1798500616911679795
R.I.P. to a LEGEND who feels like my compatriot after researching for this article.
This piece is dedicated to the memory and legacy of a journalist I wish I’d had the privilege of meeting, somehow.
Michael Hastings’ Final Email
I recently posted a thread to X rehashing the mysterious and tragic death of Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, and the strange series of events surrounding it.
Among these “strange” events was an email sent by Hastings to several people, whose identities even now seem unclear, but which may have included a WikiLeaks attorney. Additionally, there was also an alleged “blind carbon copy” recipient or “BCC,” to Joseph Biggs.
In the subject line read, “FBI investigation, re: NSA,” but the body of the email contained no further specifics on what Hastings meant. Also very curious was his use of ‘Buzzfeed GQ’, er HQ”
Was this a nod that Buzzfeed and GQ were being handled by the same “HQ” - or headquarters? I’d say Hastings made it off the radar, alright.
Just ten days before the email, on June 7th, Hastings published “Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans,” a sudden departure into a blatantly political presentation, and leaned heavily on the initial Edward Snowden NSA revelations unearthed by Glenn Greenwald, published just two days prior in The Guardian.
Theretofore, Hastings had largely remained far beneath the threshold of what people consider now, a decade later, to be politically “biased” journalism.
“It’s classified”
One of the first things Obama did in his Presidency was to classify essentially all information that mentioned a foreign government.
This would of course mean that anything Hastings reported on from overseas regarding a foreign government could be viewed by the federal government as “potentially classified” from that moment forward.
Having associated with foreign subjects overseas regarding “potentially classified information” would assuredly subject Hastings to secretive FISA warrants, which would dragnet his communications through the National Security Agency.
The email image that was published publicly was provided by former Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Biggs. However, there is no “BCC” line in the email itself, which presumably would be visible only to the recipient.
Since that day, Joe Biggs has been a central public figure of both the “radical right wing” as well as some of the most catastrophic disinformation campaigns.
Joe Biggs met Hastings in 2008
Michael Hastings met Joe Biggs while on a 2008 assignment that wound up as the basis for Hastings’ 2009 blockbuster GQ piece, “Obama’s War.”
Hastings would later feature Biggs in his landmark 2012 book, The Operators, which also drew heavily from his work published in Rolling Stone’s 2010 article, “The Runaway General.”
It was this article, “The Runaway General,” that cost Gen. Stanley McChrystal his job for disparaging remarks about President Obama.
Hastings sent shockwaves through military brass
The book was outwardly a hit, highlighting General Stanley McChrystal and then-Major General Michael Flynn’s behind-the-scenes antics and general disdain for the Obama Administration’s approach to the war in Afghanistan.
The book even highlighted then-Colonel Charles Flynn and his intimate involvement with the pair of “renegade” Generals.
McChrystal and Flynn both were very vocal - especially when drinking - about their feelings toward the Obama Administration, and The Operators conveyed it without any reservation whatsoever.
To say that Hastings’ work ruffled the feathers of Democrats in Congress (with a Democrat superstar President) would be a gross understatement.
Hastings was on record many times mentioning garden variety Brass threatening his life, though he was also on record half as many times hinting that he didn’t take the threats seriously.
McChrystal fallout from “The Runaway General”
General McChrystal was ultimately ousted from the military altogether following “The Runaway General” in 2010. According to Wikipedia, he has since been at Yale University as a Jackson Institute for Global Affairs senior fellow.
McChrystal also founded his shadowy intelligence organization in 2011, “The McChrystal Group,” whose details remain sparsely scattered across public record.
“Another Runaway General”
On February 2, 2011, Hastings published “King David’s War” in Rolling Stone, in which Hastings declared:
“Petraeus has a new plan to finish the war: Double down on a failed strategy.”
Hastings’ profile of General Petraeus was followed by yet another seismic piece three weeks later and was titled, “Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators.”
Hastings’ reporting contained in that piece spawned a Pentagon investigation.
MISO Psyops
The Pentagon investigation and the article itself ultimately only led to Congress simply redesignating psychological operations as “Military Information Support Operations,” which had conveniently just stood up its own specialized provisional Command earlier that year.
The wheels were already rolling
This was all included in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 and with no, or relatively little spectacled pushback outside of the civil liberty-hawks. The 2012 have purportedly been reauthorized as part of every NDAA since 2013.
The February 24th “Another Runaway General” resulted in the Pentagon investigation that was actually formally announced the same day as the article was published, but would only serve as a distraction for the immediately following days when, on March 1st, NATO-led forces killed Afghan children in a NATO helicopter strike.
Three weeks removed from “Another Runaway General,” the United States was launching a full offensive against the Libyan government with NATO and UN backing. This was the offensive that ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Ghaddafi from power on the back of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.
The war machine was in full stride behind the scenes, dictating war policy through their back channels onto the same Generals who were pulling the levers and turning the knobs on the war coverage that Hastings was shaping in their shadows - and getting them constantly promoted.
“F*ck Up, Move Up” - the American way
Undeterred by the deaths incurred by the “ruthless” helicopter attack, President Obama nominated Petraeus to lead the CIA before the end of April 2011 (the 28th), and was unanimously confirmed two months later, on June 30, 2011.
Interestingly, it wasn’t until he was confirmed as CIA Director that Petraeus relinquished his command of all of the Middle East and Asian NATO-led forces on July 18, 2011 and finally retired another 6 weeks later.
After the delay between the June 30th CIA confirmation and his August 31st Army resignation, Petraeus was officially sworn in on September 6th.
The moves were not knee-jerk reactions to press stories
True to form, President Obama used this time to also promote in rank then-Major General Michael Flynn and move him to Washington to continue working in the vicinity of Petraeus as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) assistant director of national intelligence for partner engagement.
Just a few weeks after joining Washington intelligence, Petraeus and Flynn reappeared once again in Hastings’ Rolling Stone article on Obama’s Libyan “intervention,” “Inside Obama’s War Room.”
James Clapper was Director of National Intelligence from 2010 to 2017, which was during Flynn’s short-lived assignment to the agency, prior to his being subsequently nominated to direct the Defense Intelligence Agency on April 17, 2012.
He took command around July 22, 2012.
All of this was ultimately the direct consequence of Michael Hastings’ reporting.
Petraeus and Flynn move to Washington
Among Petraeus’ first experiences as CIA director were the extra-judicial killings of Anwar al-Awlaki (September 30, 2011) and his 16-year old son (October 14, 2011), both of whom were American citizens living in Yemen.
It wasn’t the only time American citizens were admittedly designated for elimination by their own government without any due process provided (without any Judge’s official Order, rendering it unconstitutional).
Perhaps the most unsettling part of al Awlaki and his son’s deaths was the senior’s own past and direct relationship with the Pentagon.
Al Awlaki was an Imam at George Washington University who attended a lunch at the Pentagon just five months after the 9/11 attacks, and after meeting with one of the hijackers before 9/11.
As many readers out there are aware, academia is a prime funnel for intelligence and a haven for known assets and operators.
All of this was catalyzed by one Michael Hastings article in 2011.
Hastings’ exclusive WikiLeaks’ file was largely overlooked
On February 28, 2012, Michael Hastings published a Rolling Stone exclusive report, “Exclusive: Homeland Security Kept Tabs on Occupy Wall Street.”
WikiLeaks simultaneously published a trove of files that exposed DHS surveilling the Occupy Wall Street protests in October of 2011. Among the leaks was a 5-page DHS analysis report that was the basis for the Hastings-Rolling Stone exclusive.
What I found interesting yet, was that Hastings’ Wikileaks-influenced coverage of Occupy Wall Street seemed to get no pushback and no one lost their jobs in some grandiose, flaming spectacle.
The report was found attached in an email from Stratfor’s Vice President of Intelligence Fred Burton.
The ACLU filed an exhaustive series of lawsuits against the government for documents for domestic spying and civil rights abuses in the wake of the publicization of the DHS’ activities.
WikiLeaks attorney Jennifer Robinson was tipped off by Hastings about his circumstances
In the hours leading to Hastings’ June 18, 2013 death, Hastings contacted WikiLeaks attorney Jennifer Robinson, according to a WikiLeaks post to then-Twitter.
It was never clarified publicly (at least that I could find easily) whether the contact WikiLeaks references was the same email that Joe Biggs provided to media as a “BCC” copy.
Clearly, the WikiLeaks team had been working with Hastings since at least early 2012.
Hastings started targeting the drone program
The day after Hastings published an article about the same drone program that had just killed al Awlaki and killed several Americans, Flynn was nominated to lead the Defense Intelligence Agency.
April 16, 2012:
April 17, 2012:
April 30, 2012 (reported):
Brennan admitted for the first time to the Obama Administration’s use of lethal drone strikes in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
“So let me say it as simply as I can,”…
…“Yes, in full accordance with the law — and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives — the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qaeda terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones.”
”Brennan speech is first Obama acknowledgment of use of armed drones,” Washington Post, April 30, 2012
Petraeus’ CIA bore the brunt of fallout from Benghazi
Petraeus’ CIA and Flynn’s DIA oversaw their individual parts of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack which occurred in the leadup for the 2012 election. It happened at the CIA Annex to the US Consulate in Benghazi, just seven weeks after Flynn took the reigns at DIA.
Presidential election year issue of Benghazi
At the root of the outcry about the Benghazi attack was the response, where Flynn’s former Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) showed up as reinforcements on the day of the attack, but the CIA itself was nowhere to be found in support of the State Department despite allegedly having agreements in place to secure State’s personnel.
Yet, somehow Petraeus only had to pay for the failure vicariously through an extra-marital affair that surfaced, and for sharing classified information - a misdemeanor.
He paid with his career in public service.
On the bright side, the super-secretive-spy-extraordinaire that liked secret drones and blowing up Americans overseas John Brennan was nominated for CIA Director upon Petraeus’ abrupt resignation in November of 2012, 2 months following the same Benghazi attack that Brennan himself advised Obama to some extent on.
Call me old fashioned, but…
…a blackmail ouster from a powerful government position suggests more to me than simply an abdication of duty by an intelligence stooge.
FOX News reported after the fact, on Monday, November 12, that it wasn’t until election day that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was ever even notified of the Petraeus affair, and that Eric Holder sat on the information for months.
The investigation was spurred originally in May 2012 by what was perceived by the “victim” to be an attempt to blackmail Petraeus. The entire scandal only lasted mere days when Petraeus was suddenly offering his resignation on Friday, November 9, after Obama secured a resounding election win on Tuesday, November 6 - the same day the DOJ finally alerted DNI Clapper of the investigation.
Hastings was a widow-maker among “war machine” leadership
In hindsight, and despite its daily echoes in news cycles now, Hastings’ work has proven monumental - and monumentally forgotten by the general public.
At nearly every juncture surrounding highly publicized military firings and leadership shuffles during the first Obama Admin, there was a timely Hastings shock piece that lit the fuse to shake things up.
The revolving door revolved around Hastings shock pieces
Hastings was a prolific figure of every significant shakeup among military leadership of the early Obama Administration’s new iteration of the “War on Terror.”
It begs the question of Hastings’ superiors in hindsight whether Hastings was being assigned at the behest of the Obama White House itself. This trend even continued despite changing employers through GQ, then Rolling Stone, and finally Buzzfeed.
Had Hastings been replaced?
The day before his passing, GQ published an interview that included discussion of the drone program that CIA Director nominee John Brennan helped build.
President Obama had appointed Brennan as Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in 2009, which didn’t require Senate confirmation and granted Obama daily access to the spy mastermind.
The 113th Congress was sworn in on January 3, 2013, and Brennan had been under the gun since Obama nominated him to lead the CIA on January 7th.
The GQ interview was conducted by Reid Cherlin in February (mentioned in the GQ article), Brennan was confirmed as CIA Director by the Senate and sworn in on March 8th, 2013.
Within a few weeks, Congress was having hearings on the use of drones in counterterrorism.
This means that GQ was sitting on the piece and waiting for some arbitrary amount of time, and all for what amounted to a masturbatory PR stunt.
Clues to GQ’s underlying motives
Back in 2010, GQ published, “A Dagger to the CIA,” by renowned former CIA case officer Robert Baer, who had been on record for years, repeatedly offering commentary on the excessive use of drone strikes in favor over traditional intelligence operations.
He was discussed on several occasions in the Stratfor emails of the WikiLeaks Global Intelligence Files as well.
President Obama had already signed away sections of the Smith-Mundt Act on December 28, 2012, so it’s anyone’s best guess to what degree government funding and narrative shaping affected the timing or delivery of Reid Cherlin’s profile of John Brennan.
The Smith-Mundt modernization effectively allows U.S. government officials to disseminate in the United States news and information programs produced by the government at taxpayers’ expense for audiences abroad.
One can only imagine, given the trajectory of Hastings’ reporting at the time, that his tone of Brennan would likely have been counter to Cherlin’s characterizations - or his refraining from making them - of counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan.
“I hope that as head of the CIA, Brennan will use his position to bring the drone program out of the shadows and put it where it belongs, which is with the Department of Defense.”
-Sarah Holewinski, Center for Civilians in Conflict
John Brennan - Architect of Obama’s Capture/Kill List
At the height of American involvement in the Middle East, Obama’s comprehensive strategy had been to draw down the U.S. Military’s overt presence and to supplement the policing vacuum with drone warfare, largely facilitated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at the time.
By the CIA having its own compartmented missions - completely secret from the American people and much of Congress - it hypothetically provides legal cover to take out the most controversial targets without implicating the military for what could be called war crimes.
John Brennan is regarded as not only the architect of U.S. drone policy from his role as an advisor prior to taking over the CIA in 2013, but also as the key contributor to Obama Administration’s “Capture/Kill List” and the “Disposition Matrix.”
According to Michael Hastings’ wife, CIA Director John Brennan was a target of Hastings’ work at the time of his death.
From August 14, 2013:
Other reports with sources from Hastings’ work also mentioned his working on material involving (separate link) Barrett Brown, which he was speaking with his editor about ahead of time. His editor at Buzzfeed at the time was Ben Smith, the future founder of Semafor.
And then there is yet Jill Kelley, one of the women involved in the David Petraeus scandal that led to his abrupt resignation, with whom Hastings had also been scheduled a meeting for a story.
Kelley had been contacted through a “sock puppet” account traced back to Paula Broadwell, who was engaged in a long-term affair with the then-CIA Director.
America’s Last Prisoner of War
On June 7, 2012, Michael Hastings and Rolling Stone published “Bowe Bergdahl: America’s Last Prisoner of War” to great public acclaim along with the expected indignation from the “Community” hawks.
The article received such a response that the article was included in documents released by the FBI, along with what appear to be intelligence reports of at least one interaction with Michael Hastings. The documents seem to indicate he was placed under investigation or was assisting in one during the planning of his Bowe Bergdahl article.
Was Hastings a target?
While it remains entirely unclear from the documents whether Hastings was a target of the FBI, the FBI initially denied, and then backtracked months later, that no documents at all had initially turned up on Hastings.
When taken at face value, these pieces together reduce the window of possibilities to include that Hastings could have perhaps been a source or informant of some sort in 2011.
Surveillance of journalists?
The date of the report submission shows June 11, 2012, placing it four days after publishing “Bowe Bergdahl: America’s Last Prisoner of War” in Rolling Stone. This record appears to confirm surveillance - of some sort - being done on the authors of the piece dating as far back as the planning stages of the article.
CIA Director Brennan targeted journalists
According to an email found in WikiLeaks’ Stratfor bucket of Global Intelligence leaks, John Brennan was the one behind the targeting of journalists outside the Beltway as far back as 2010, when the Obama war doctrine really started taking heat.
Stratfor had been called “The Shadow CIA” by Barron’s in 2002, albeit a totally different era completely in U.S. intelligence gathering and implementation. Outlets like The Atlantic at the time, however, had it out for Stratfor six months before the WikiLeaks email dump.
Stratfor Emails
A Fred Burton Stratfor email was published September 10, 2012, the day before the Benghazi attack.
There had been an incident in Afghanistan involving an Al Qaeda double agent that remained fresh in Agency memory that still had Agency feathers ruffled and Sean Noonan fired off an email to Stratfor’s Fred Burton containing a Washington Post article on the matter.
Burton wrote, in part:
“The CIA is a unfixable systemic failure much like the FBI.
The system is broke, primarily because of the lawyers and no sense of national mission.
Time to bury the CIA and start over as a national think tank. They need to get out of operations. Period.”
(ASIDE) It sounds like we all see the same solution, if I might add.
In another email later in the chain, Sean Noonan replied and mentioned that the CIA was turned on its head in 2010.
This adds some insight to the relationship between the CIA and the military that was developing on the ground in Afghanistan, even well after the Obama Presidency had gotten off the ground, so-to-speak.
Alex Jones’ InfoWars hired former Stratfor analyst Molly Maroney as Editor-in-Chief in July 2012, according to her LinkedIn at the time, according to past reporting.
Snowden Leak Fallout
Another potential reason behind Brennan’s alleged targeting journalists, even later as CIA Director, is obvious to just about any imaginable American who watched any news in the last decade - Edward Snowden’s leaks of NSA mass-spying evidence.
In Hastings’ final article, “Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans,” he mentioned for the first time a man named Barrett Brown, another investigative journalist who in exposed a company called HB Gary’s coordinated plan to attack the credibility of WikiLeaks and Glenn Greenwald.
It was Brown’s reporting that was eventually further corroborated by - again - the Stratfor Global Intelligence leaks.
WikiLeaks released a cache of John Brennan’s emails from an AOL account in 2015, but they only ran up to a point as recent as 2008.
“The WikiLeaks Threat”
Stratfor was part of a coordinated campaign with Palantir, HB Gary, and Berico Technologies to smear and generally discredit the work WikiLeaks was doing.
Stratfor was found through the WikiLeaks dump, and after Congressional letters and investigation, to have contracts with many multinational companies including Dow Chemical, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Coca-Cola, as reported in The Guardian in 2012.
There was plenty of government overlap with Stratfor, too, but that’s not the point of this article.
Brennan and Snowden
On November 18, 2015, The Hill reported on Director Brennan’s sentiments toward Snowden in the most public rebuke of him to-date.
Julian Hattem wrote, in part:
“I think any unauthorized disclosures made by individuals that have dishonored the oath of office, that they have raised their hand and attested to, undermines this nation’s security,” he said in response to a question about Snowden at the Overseas Security Advisory Council’s annual meeting. “
WikiLeaks helped Snowden flee prosecution
It’s important to note WikiLeaks’ roots in the Hong Kong dissident movement which was quite active in 2010.
Therefore, it’s equally important to note Chinese President Xi Xinping taking over the Chinese presidency on March 14, 2013. Rooting corruption out of his government was among his chief points in his inaugural address to the People’s Congress.
There were immediately conspiracy theories about the crash
Immediately there were conspiracy theories about the crash being in the shadow of his alerting a WikiLeaks attorney and his purported long-time friend Sgt. Joe Biggs to Hastings’ upcoming story, and Hastings’ suspicions of being in danger of some sort.
They weren’t the only ones who sensed something wrong.
On August 22, 2013, USA Today reported on an interaction between Hastings and his neighbor, Jordanna Thigpen, wherein he asked to borrow her car because he believed someone was tampering with it.
In the story, USA Today wrote:
"The NSA stuff … really rocked him," one editor said. "I'm not a doctor, but he certainly was agitated in the last day or two of his life."
CIA Investigated whistleblower “Retribution” around Hastings Death
According to FOI documents obtained in 2014 by Jason Leopold, the CIA Investigator General initiated a case for an “Alleged Retribution Against Alleged Whistleblower,” which may seem like a lot of allegations in one case.
That’s because it is.
note: (Also notice in the document, the initiation of a case regarding “Alleged Classified Information Leaked to Foreign Army Officials” in July 2013)
Hastings was driving a 2013 Mercedes C250 Coupé
One of the prevailing conspiracy theories around Hastings’ death is that his car was sabotaged, somehow.
As far back as 2012, Mercedes-Benz has offered cars connected to their “cloud” service. The COMAND system is their integrated systems platform. It handles everything from downloading navigation maps and locations, entertainment, cruise control, smartphones, etc.
These are fairly commonplace in most vehicles now, over ten years later.
Mercedes-Benz has maintained for many years an R&D facility in California’s Silicon Valley where “Intelligent Drive” was making advanced leaps just months following Hastings’ freak accident.
On September 28, 2012, Mercedes-Benz announced it was offering “DISTRONIC PLUS” radar-adaptive cruise control that utilized built-in radar sensors in the vehicle to regulate speed, including braking from a speed of 124 mph.
On September 18, 2014, it was reported that Mercedes-Benz was setting up a firewall to “protect car data from hackers.” Does that mean there was minimal protection, if any, at the time of Hastings’ death?
WikiLeaks’ “Vault 7” Dump
Though the leaks did not end up offering much concrete evidence, the March 2017 WikiLeaks “Vault 7” dumps of CIA emails and documents showed as far back as October 2014, the CIA had been discussing “infecting” vehicle navigation and steering systems.
Emergency responders told not to respond to press or speak on the death
San Diego investigative journalist Kimberly Dvorak reported in August of 2013 that when she asked to speak with the first responders to the scene of the accident, she was stonewalled.
Beyond that further, Dvorak said she was informed by some unnamed Army personnel that the fire that consumed the car was very abnormal. She went on to share that the engine and drive train were displaced in a very inconsistent manner than the scene would suggest.
Dvorak brought to the segment an offering from a San Diego professor who claims a study showed in 2010 students taking control of nearly all critical systems of a Nissan Sentra from an iPad.
WATCH LOCAL COVERAGE FROM THE NEXT DAY HERE:
The aftermath of Snowden’s “NSA Files”
Michael Hastings turned his work squarely political, calling the Democrats out by party name over their spying practices in the days immediately following Edward Snowden’s initial leaks.
Just over a week after Snowden’s leaks, Michael Flynn’s “hatchet lobber” Michael Hastings was dead; a week after that, Snowden was in Russia, and then Michael Flynn was walking into Russia’s spy headquarters as Director of the United States Defense Intelligence Agency.
Had the military been reigning in the U.S. Intelligence Community through its own methods, and were the Edward Snowden files, along with Hastings and Glenn Greenwald’s work, the mechanism for delivery?
If that is the case, then it would be a reasonable basis for the extreme paranoia exhibited by the Intelligence Community about Russia ever since.
Finally…back to the email…
One of the last people to be purportedly contacted by Michael Hastings, Joe Biggs went to the known Stratfor affiliate, Alex Jones’ InfoWars, in the hours after Hastings’ death.
This all, of course, culminated after Stratfor intentionally set out to discredit WikiLeaks - Hastings’ friends - by using Palantir, who in a couple years more would be working again with Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.) in the Trump Campaign.
I’m unsure how to interpret that the “close friend” of a tragically passed, world-renowned journalist decided to run to the opposite team with the scoop before anyone else.
Not to mention that Hastings’ final email story was the ticket that rocketed Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs’ entire career in “shock-jock” conspiracy theory reporting, a la Alex Jones.
Why in the world was Joe Biggs, a twice-injured grunt combat vet, the last supposed contact with Hastings? And if it was legit, why would it be kept a secret from the other people he trusted enough to clue in to his emergency?
What does it say about the knee-jerk PANIC every time Trump’s name is in the same sentence with the word “Russia?”
As I covered in my last major piece, “Was Michael Flynn Targeted By the "Deep State"...or Was He Protected?,” the document that there was so much hullaballoo over at one point in the Mueller probe were documents that were requested for “unmasking” before the alleged reason for the “unmasking” actually took place.
What I discovered was that through other organizations’ FOI requests, then-U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Samantha Power - or someone posing as her, according to her - requested specific documents containing General Flynn’s name.
That document was a conversation between Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn and a Russian target, collected by the National Security Agency (NSA) on September 30, 2013 - about 3-1/2 months after Hastings death, Snowden’s arrival in Russia, and Flynn’s trip to Russia’s spy headquarters in Moscow.
Does it feel like a 10-year old psychological operation?
Was Michael Hastings the first American journalist to be killed publicly, right under our noses, on American soil?
Has the intelligence community been at civil (psychological) war with the military and Michael Hastings woke up to it?
This has to end. Declassify everything Michael Hastings and make it front and center of the Weaponization committee.
If nothing else, Hastings’ work deserves its Justice. We all do.
ENDLESS WARS.
ENDLESS CHAOS.
ENDLESS LIES.
ENDLESS SLAVERY.
END THE ENDLESS.
EDITOR’S (my) NOTE: Multiple attempts were made to get a comment from Alex Jones and Joe Biggs themselves through public posts to X about the veracity of the Hastings email, all still available for public viewing now.
I received no response from one of them, and was mocked by the other.
Kek.
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Very well written! Thank you!
Gus, so I take it you didn't agree with the General and Brennan's sabbatical theory...?
https://canadafreepress.com/article/jbjohn-brennana-company-man