JOHN BRENNAN..."THE BAGMAN" FOR OBAMA.... JOHN BRENNAN:
ISLAMIC CONVERT WHO SWORE HIS CIA OATH ON THE "CONSTITUTION" AND NOT NOT ON A BIBLE
UPDATE FROM JUDICIAL WATCH (OCT 2015)
In mid-December 2013, Judicial Watch obtained and released the full
transcript of a May 7, 2012, teleconference between then-White House top
counterterror adviser (now CIA Director) John Brennan and various TV
terrorism consultants in which Brennen revealed that the U.S. and its
allies had “inside control over any plot” in its efforts to thwart a May
2012 terrorism bomb plot, thus blowing the cover on undercover agents
within al Qaeda.
The Brennan revelation of “inside control” – an intelligence
community euphemism for spies within an enemy operation – reportedly
helped lead to the disclosure of a previously well-kept secret at the
heart of a joint U.S.-British-Saudi undercover terrorism operation
inside Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). According
to a Reuters May 18, 2012, report:
The next day’s headlines were filled with
news of a U.S. spy planted inside Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula (AQAP), who had acquired the latest, non-metallic model of the
underwear bomb and handed it over to U.S. authorities.
At stake was an operation that could not
have been more sensitive — the successful penetration by Western spies
of AQAP, al Qaeda’s most creative and lethal affiliate. As a result of
leaks, the undercover operation had to be shut down.
In the transcript obtained by Judicial Watch, Brennan led the
teleconference where he addressed the top terror consultants for ABC,
NBC, CNN, and CBS including Caitlin Hayden, Frances Townsend, Richard
Clarke, Roger Cressey, and Juan Zarate. In an apparent attempt to
soft-peddle the thwarted terrorist attack, Brennan twice exposed the
covert operation; first at the outset of the call, then as the
conference drew to a close:
BRENNAN: The device itself, as I think
the FBI statement said quite clearly, never posed a threat to the
American public or the public … Well, as we, well know, Al Qaeda has
tried to carry out simultaneous types of attacks, and so we were
confident that we had inside control over the – any plot that might have
been associated with this device.
CLARKE: If it gets asked. There was no active threat because we had insider control …
BRENNAN: I would not disagree with the way you put that, at all.
It should also be noted that records obtained by Judicial Watch in May 2012,
through a Freedom of Information lawsuit, indicate that Brennan helped
orchestrate the administration’s attempt to influence the storyline of
the movie “Zero Dark Thirty.” A transcript of a July 14, 2011, meeting
between Defense Department officials, including Under Secretary of
Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers, and filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow
and Mark Boal reveals that Boal met directly with White House officials
on at least two occasions regarding the film: “I took your guidance and
spoke to the WH and had a good meeting with Brennan and McDonough and I
plan to follow up with them; and they were forward leaning and
interested in sharing their point of view; command and control; so that
was great, thank you,” Boal said according to the transcript. During
Brennan’s February 2013 CIA confirmation hearings, he confirmed he had
met with Boal “on how White House officials viewed the opportunities and
risks associated with a film about the raid that killed bin Laden.”
Brennan, of course, was not the only Obama administration official
who attempted to curry favor with “Zero Dark Thirty” filmmakers. In
early December Judicial Watch released more than 200 pages of documents
from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including a previously
unreleased CIA internal report, confirming that former CIA Director Leon
Panetta revealed classified information at a June 24, 2011, bin Laden
assault awards ceremony attended by filmmaker Mark Boal. Significantly,
the entire transcript of the Panetta speech provided to Judicial Watch
by the CIA was classified “Top Secret.” More than 90 lines are redacted
for security reasons, further confirming that significant portions of
the speech should not have been made in front of the filmmaker who
lacked top security clearance.
THIS IS JOHN BRENNAN:
Mr John
Brennan has a BA and MA in Middle Eastern studies. He went to Cairo,
home of the Muslim Brotherhood, to study. He then became a career CIA
agent and CEO of The Analysis Corporation (see below). For someone so
highly qualified and knowledgable about the muslim world, its amazing he
was unable to warn against the muslim encroachment in America and the
terror attacks of 9/11. Considering he ran a company dedicated to analysis of security concerns, its pretty amazing he has contributed nothing to the actual security of the USA!.png)
Please watch this current video of John Brennan pandering to muslims, in the White House.
John Brennan, the Obama counter-terrorism adviser nominated this week
to head the CIA, played a controversial role in what many suspect was
an effort to sanitize Obama’s passport records.
In March 21, 2008, amid Obama’s first presidential campaign, two
unnamed contract employees for the State Department were fired and a
third was disciplined for breaching the passport file of Democratic
presidential candidate and then-Sen. Barack Obama.
Breaking the story, the Washington Times on March 20, 2008, noted
that all three had used their authorized computer network access to
look up and read Obama’s records within the State Department consular
affairs section that “possesses and stores passport information.”
Contacted by the newspaper, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack
attributed the violations to non-political motivations, stressing that
the three individuals involved “did not appear to be seeking
information on behalf of any political candidate or party.”
“As far as we can tell, in each of the three cases, it was imprudent curiosity,” McCormack told the Washington Times.
The spokesman did not disclose exactly how the State Department came to that conclusion.
By the next day, the story had changed.
The New York Times reported March 21, 2008, that the security breach
had involved unauthorized searches of the passport records not just of
Sen. Obama but also of then-presidential contenders Sens. John McCain
and Hillary Clinton.
Again, the New York Times attributed the breaches to “garden-variety
snooping by idle employees” that was “not politically motivated.”
Like the Washington Times, the New York Times gave no explanation to
back up its assertion that the breaches were attributable to
non-political malfeasance.
Still, the New York Times report indicated then-Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice had spent Friday morning calling all three presidential
candidates and that she had told Obama that she was sorry for the
violation.
“I told him that I myself would be very disturbed if I learned that somebody had looked into my passport file,” Rice said.
The newspaper quoted Obama as saying he appreciated the apology but
that he expected the passport situation “to be investigated diligently
and openly.”
According to the New York Times report, Obama’s tone of concern was obvious.
“One of the things that the American people count on in their
interactions with any level of government is that if they have to
disclose personal information, that is going to stay personal and stay
private,” Obama told reporters. “And when you have not just one, but a
series of attempts to tap into people’s personal records, that’s a
problem, not just for me, but for how our government is functioning.”
The New York Times noted that the files examined likely contained
sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers,
addresses and dates of birth, as well as passport applications and other
biographical information that would pertain to U.S. citizenship. Only
at the end of the article did the New York Times note that State
Department spokesman McCormack had emphasized the most egregious
violation appeared to have been made against Obama.
Obama was the only one of the three presidential candidates involved
who had his passport file breached on three separate occasions. The
first occurred Jan. 9, 2008, followed by separate violations Feb. 21 and
March 14, 2008. Moreover, all three of the offending employees had
breached Obama’s files, while each of the passport files of McCain and
Clinton had been breached only once.
The Brennan connection
The New York Times noted the two offending State Department contract
employees who were fired had worked for Stanley Inc., a company based
in Arlington, Va., while the reprimanded worker continued to be
employed by the Analysis Corporation of McLean, Va.
The newspaper gave no background on either corporation, other than to
note that Stanley Inc. did “computer work for the government.”
At that time, Stanley Inc. was a 3,500-person technology firm that
had just won a $570-million contract to provide computer-related
passport services to the State Department.
Analysis Corporation was headed by Brennan, a former CIA agent who
was then serving as an adviser on intelligence and foreign policy to
Sen. Obama’s presidential campaign.
After Obama’s inauguration, Brennan joined the White House as
assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for
homeland security and counter-terrorism.
By March 22, 2008, the Washington Times reported that the State
Department investigation had focused on the contract worker for the
Analysis Corporation, because he was the only one of the three involved
in breaching the passport records of both Obama and McCain, the two
presidential candidates whose eligibility as “natural born” citizens
under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution were in question.
Keeping with the theme that the motive for the passport breach was
attributable to mischief, the three State Department contract employees
received relatively light penalties for their offenses – two were fired
and one was reprimanded.
Although at the time the State Department promised a full-scale investigation, the public was kept in the dark.
In July 2008, the State Department’s Office of Inspector General
issued a 104-page investigative report on the passport breach incidents,
stamped “Sensitive But Unclassified.” The report was so heavily
redacted, it was virtually useless to the public. Scores of passages
were blacked out entirely, including one sequence of 29 consecutive
pages that were each obliterated by a solid black box that made it
impossible even to determine paragraph structures.
Investigative reporter Kenneth Timmerman said a well-placed but
unnamed source told him that the real point of the passport breach
incidents was to cauterize the Obama file, removing from it any
information that could prove damaging to his eligibility to be
president.
According to the theory, the breaches of McCain’s and Clinton’s files
were done for misdirection purposes, to create confusion and to
suggest the motives of the perpetrators were attributable entirely to
innocent curiosity.
Another thief enters the case
Within a few days, a new witness surfaced unexpectedly, providing
evidence that breaching passport files was an offense being perpetrated
by State Department officials on a massive and everyday basis.
The case centered on Leiutenant Quarles Harris Jr., age 24. Harris,
who spelled his named differently than the officer rank, was a petty
drug dealer and identity-theft criminal who never served in the military
or in any police or fire department.
On March 25, 2008, at approximately 9:30 p.m., Officer William A.
Smith Jr. of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s Narcotics Special
Investigation Division stopped an oncoming vehicle that had tinted
windows he believed were in violation of the D.C. Tinted Window Act of
1994.
After stopping the vehicle, Smith found the driver, Harris, and his
female passenger had been smoking marijuana. Harris had stuffed in his
jacket pocket a large clear zip-lock bag containing 13 smaller clear
zip-lock bags, each filled with marijuana.
The affidavit of criminal complaint filed by Smith with the U.S.
District Court specified that in the search of the vehicle, the
officers found 19 different credit cards with names different from
Harris and his female passenger. Also discovered were eight State
Department passport applications, also in names different from Harris
and his female passenger.
The officers further discovered four of the names on the passport
applications matched the names on the credit cards. A check with
American Express while Harris was still on the scene of the traffic stop
indicated that some of the American Express cards in his possession,
but not in his name, had recently been used and that American Express
had placed a “fraud alert” on the cards.
Smith brought Harris to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Sixth District,
where agents of the U.S. Secret Service, the State Department and the
U.S. Postal Service questioned him. Harris’ involvement in passport
application theft clearly made him no ordinary petty criminal.
According to the criminal complaint filed by Smith, Harris admitted
under questioning that he obtained the passport information from an
unnamed co-conspirator working at the State Department. The complaint
said the passport applications were used to obtain credit cards in the
names of the passport applicants.
Another unnamed co-conspirator working at the U.S. Postal Service
intercepted the issued credit cards before they were delivered to the
residences of the persons named on the cards.
What was clear from Harris’ statements was that breaching passport
records at the State Department had developed into major criminal
activity conducted on a continuing basis by State Department employees
with access to the State Department’s Passport Information Electronic
Records System, commonly known by the acronym PIERS.
What also was clear was that Harris had information related to the
State Department employees who had breached Obama’s passport records and
that he was cooperating with government officials.
Despite the objection of the prosecutors, the judge at his
arraignment released Harris the next day on personal recognizance. He
was ordered to return to court for a hearing in June 2008.
Key witness murdered
However, Harris did not live to attend the court hearing.
On April 18, 2008, he was found murdered in Washington, D.C., by a
single bullet to the head in what appeared to be a drive-by shooting.
The Washington Times reported April 19, 2008, that a “key witness in
a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State
Department was fatally shot in front of a District church” at close
range, around 11 p.m., in the 2800 block of 12th Street NE, according
to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Harris, who the Washington Times described as “cooperating with
federal investigators,” was found slumped dead at the steering wheel of
his car in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in the
northeast section of D.C., according to Commander Michael Anzallo, the
head of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Criminal Investigations
Division.
A police officer patrolling the neighborhood at the time of Harris’
death heard gunshots and ran to the scene, only to find Harris dead
inside his car. The Metropolitan Police admitted a “shot spotter” device
had been used to locate Harris in the shooting, although police
officials declined to say whether his death was a direct result of his
cooperation with federal investigators.
There is no evidence that today links Harris’ crimes or murder with
the breach of Obama’s passport records by State Department contract
employees.
At first glance, Harris could be dismissed as a foot-soldier selling
marijuana and peddling credit cards fraudulently obtained via
passport-related identity theft.
Yet there is more to the story than petty criminal activity.
Obviously, Harris got himself in way over his head when he decided to
work with the State Department officials accessing PIERS to obtain
passport records without authorization.
Equally obvious was that by being willing to cooperate with police,
Harris risked becoming a threat to his accomplices and co-conspirators
within the State Department.
ABC news affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., reported Cleopatria
Harris, the mother of Leiutenant Quarles Harris, believed her son was
murdered to keep him from cooperating with the federal investigation
into the passport-record breach. She told the TV station her son was in
court three days before his murder.
“He felt like he was going to do jail time. He was willing to do jail
time,” she said, indicating that she believed news reports that her
son had been arrested and was cooperating with the police were the
reason he was killed. “Yes I do. think it had a hell of a lot to do
with it. [The story] made my son appear to be a snitch.”
Similarly, the Washington Post reported Cleopatria Harris was
“absolutely sure” her son was killed because of his involvement in the
passport-credit card scam.
Harris’ mother refused to believe her son’s murder was an act of
violence unrelated to the passport scheme. Instead, she contended he was
killed because he was an important witness regarding a State
Department breach of passport records.
To date, the D.C. Metropolitan Police have no suspects in the still
unsolved murder of Leiutenant Quarles Harris Jr. Nor has the State
Department ever revealed publicly what was discovered in the breach of
Obama’s passport records. The three individuals involved in the breach
have never come forward in public to tell what they found.
Obama discloses trip to Pakistan
But this is not the end of the story.
Two weeks after the report that Obama’s passport records had been
breached, candidate Obama made the surprising disclosure at a private
fundraiser April 7, 2008, that he had traveled to Pakistan during his
college years.
Jake Tapper, then senior White House correspondent for ABC News,
commented that Obama’s disclosure that he had taken a college trip to
Pakistan was “news to most of us.” Tapper said “it was odd we hadn’t
heard about it before, given all the talk of Pakistan during this
campaign.”
Tapper reported that, according to the Obama campaign, Obama visited
Pakistan in 1981, the year he transferred from Occidental College to
Columbia University, and that he had visited his mother and sister Maya
in Indonesia on the same trip.
Why was Obama disclosing now, for the first time, that he had traveled to Pakistan with his roommates from Occidental College?
Did Obama use an Indonesian passport to travel to Indonesia and
Pakistan in 1981, and was he concerned the breach of his passport
records might end up disclosing such information, if true?
The attempt to preempt such a disclosure might explain the timing of
Obama’s decision to suddenly reveal, at least to the friends assembled
for the fundraiser, the previously undisclosed trip to Indonesia and
Pakistan.
“I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college,” Obama is heard saying
on the poor-quality audiotape that survives from the San Francisco
fundraiser. “I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/did-cia-pick-sanitize-obamas-passport-records/#jMORMC5JYWKqEsWi.99
More Details Here https://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/brennan-passport-breach/2009/01/12/id/337482/
MORE DETAILED INFO ON THE BENGHAZI CONNECTION!Having
received training and certification in Internet Profiling, I began to
look into the Internet activity related to the video right after the
murder of Stevens and the violence that was attributed to the video.
This investigation was as elusive as it was revealing, as I began to
note that links to the video began disappearing after I would visit
various sites related to the video or its apparent “host.”
It was on or about 22 September 2012 that during my research, I found
a video titled Proof Positive - In My Opinion posted by an individual
on the YouTube channel under the user name “Montagraph.” I found
that many of his findings mirrored mine (or mine his), although there
were a few exceptions. Nonetheless, this Internet video contains links
to many interesting screen captures.HERE IS THE VIDEO... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7os9D-EsFmM
The individual in the video Proof Positive - In My Opinion on the
YouTube channel Montagraph details some very disturbing possibilities,
including the identification of a news and politics website (a series
of them, interrelated) known as NewsPoliticsNow and its various name
variations, might be linked to Stanley Inc., which is now known as CGI.
It is interesting that my investigative results seem to be generally
consistent with his findings, and also that there appears to be a link
to this company that provides products and services to the U.S.
military, the U.S. State Department and DHS.
The video, defense contractors & Obama
In the “Montagraph video,” a connection is drawn to Stanley Inc. The
importance of this, beyond the status as defense contractors from
Arlington, Virginia, lies in the digital fingerprints connecting the
videoInnocence of Muslims with a user with access to the NewsPoliticsNow
website. The “Montagraph video” explains the connection by the
presence of a common avatar, or an image used by Internet posters. It
is here that things become as disturbing as they are convoluted.
According to published reports, Stanley Inc. was awarded a $164
million contract to print new U.S. passports in 2006. Two employees of
Stanley Inc., along with a third individual employed by another defense
contractor identified as The Analysis Corporation, were identified
as the perpetrators who breached the records of the U.S. passport
office on three occasions in 2008 and “improperly accessed” the
passport records of Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton and John
McCain. The breaches occurred on January 9, February 21 and March 14, 2008.
It is important to note that the CEO of the Analysis Corporation at the time of the passport office break-in was John O. Brennan,
who served as a close advisor to Obama in 2008 on matters of
intelligence and foreign policy. Brennan also contributed to Obama’s
2008 presidential campaign. Brennan also had a 25-year career in the
CIA.
Read about him here http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2013/01/all-the-presidents-men-meet-john-brennan-obamas-cia-director-2554694.html
Presently, John Brennan is chief counterterrorism advisor to Barack
Hussein Obama under the official title of Deputy National Security
Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the
President.
Since 2008, the accepted and unchallenged motive for the breach was
that the perpetrators were looking at the passport and biological data
on all three presidential candidates in some sort of “exploratory”
mission. They were summarily fired from their jobs and disappeared into
the night before they could be interviewed by investigators working on
the case. What took place following this admitted breach, however, has an extremely sinister overtone.
Flashback: 2008 Obama revelation; Key witness to passport office break-in murdered
Recall that at the time of the passport office break-in, Barack
Hussein Obama was on the campaign trail as the presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee. The news of the breach was made public within a
week of the last intrusion, and a week later, on March 21, 2008, Obama
was asked for his reaction by ABC News Jake Tapper while campaigning.
Obviously, Obama now officially knows that the public has been informed
about the level of the breach, and that Obama’s personal and
confidential biographical information, in addition to his international
travels was apparently “accessed.”
It is important to note that that the files accessed included Obama’s
personal passport and were not limited to his diplomatic passport.
On April 8, 2008, Obama continued to comment on the fact that the
confidentiality of his passport records were apparently compromised. It
was on this occasion when Obama admitted, for the first time in any
public venue as a presidential candidate, that he traveled to Pakistan
in 1981. One wonders whether Obama would have disclosed his Pakistan
trip at this time had it not been for the uncertainty that the
information was already “in play.”
Even ABC News appeared surprised at this sudden and unexpected
revelation, considering all of the talk about Pakistan and U.S. foreign
policy during the previous several months. Research shows that Obama
did not disclose this trip at any time during any policy discussions or
debates prior to the passport office breach.
It is also important to point out that during the investigation of
the breach of the passport office records, the Washington Times reported
that “officials do not know whether information was improperly copied, altered or removed
from the database during the intrusions” [Emphasis added]. As time
progressed, however, so did the leaks. It was reported that at least one
employee within the U.S. State Department shared passport information
with a man identified as Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr.
My investigation suggests that Harris was the intended recipient of
stolen credit card information from the State Department employee, but
received more than what he bargained for. When he realized the scope
of the crime and the explosive nature of the information he possessed,
he turned to investigators for protection. He also began to talk with
investigators and ultimately, made a deal with federal prosecutors.
Before he could make good on his deal, Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr.
was found shot to death in his car on April 17, 2008, just over a
month after the last breach. He was found in front of the Judah House
Praise Baptist Church in the northeast section of Washington. He had
been shot in the head.
The murder of Harris remains unsolved, and the official narrative of
that murder is that Harris was either a victim of random violence, or
his murder was a result of a “street deal gone bad.”
Prelude to attack
In the days and weeks leading up to the murder of Ambassador Stevens
and three other Americans in Benghazi, the U.S. Department of State
received at least three warnings of not only impending violence, but of
U.S. embassies being specifically targeted. One warning was specific
to the U.S. embassy in Cairo, which was directly related to the
current imprisonment of the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rahman, the
mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Others specified
the Libyan embassy.
On September 9, 2012, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
reportedly received a warning that stated “[t]he time has come for a
strong movement from you, O sons of Egypt, to release the detained
sheikh…Let your slogan be: No to the American embassy in Egypt until our
detained sheikh is released. Starting now, let the faithful among you
form follow-up committees in charge of taking the necessary measures
to force America to release the sheikh, even if it requires burning
the embassy down with everyone in it.”
The warnings in the week before the attack were received while
Ambassador Stevens was traveling in Germany, Austria and Sweden.
Accordingly, it is important to determine why Ambassador Stevens was at the consulate office in Benghazi during a time of heightened threat,
was he made aware of the increased threat situation by the Clinton
State Department, and who was responsible for the safety and security of
Ambassador Stevens and what actually happened in Benghazi?
Research, investigation and confirmation from one source within the
U.S. government found that in the situation involving Stevens,
protection of the U.S. consulate was provided in large part by an
organization known as “the Martyrs of the Feb. 17 Revolution Brigade.” This is a local Libyan militia led by Fawzi abu Kataf, who has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
It is now being reported that the “protection team,” specifically the
leaders of the Martyrs of the Feb. 17 Revolution Brigade received
orders from a senior Libyan government official to stand down during
the coordinated attack against the U.S. Consulate.
It is unclear whether Ambassador Stevens was made aware of the
threats, but it would logical to believe that he was not aware of the
stand-down order or the impending attack. Regardless, it is important to
determine what Ambassador Stevens’ mission was in Benghazi along with
Foreign Service officer Sean Smith and Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and
Tyrone Woods.
UPDATE AUGUST 2013:
REMEMBER THE JOURNALIST MICHAEL HASTINGS???
Journalist Michael Hastings Was Investigating CIA Director John Brennan at Time of Deadly Crash
The widow of Michael Hastings confirmed that the investigative
journalist was working on a story on CIA Director John Brennan when he
was killed in a fiery car crash in June.
In an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan on August 5, Elise Jordan
said that the story on Brennan will appear in an upcoming issue of
Rolling Stone. The story apparently relates to Brennan’s role in targeting journalists who were working on government secrets.
In its
report on Hasting’s investigations,
San Diego 6 Newscited an
email from
obtained by WikiLeaks, which alleges that “Brennan is behind the witch
hunts of investigative journalists” who reveal government secrets. It
was an internal communication within Stratfor, a global intelligence
company with connections to the US state, with a subject line stating
that the message was for internal use only and should not be forwarded.
The email went on: “There is a specific tasker from the [White House]
to go after anyone printing materials negative to the Obama agenda (oh
my). Even the FBI is shocked. The Wonder Boys must be in meltdown mode.”
Hastings died in the early hours of the morning on June 19, when his
Mercedes exploded after apparently crashing into a palm tree in
Hollywood, California. The vehicle burst into flames and the engine was
launched 100 feet down the street. One witness compared the sound coming
from the blast to a bomb explosion that shook nearby houses.
While initial eyewitness testimony indicated that Hastings had been
speeding, new evidence is surfacing that questions such statements.
According to the same
San Diego 6 News report, a surveillance
video taken from a nearby restaurant has been studied and shows that
Hastings may have only been traveling as slowly as 35 mph when the
collision took place.
According to
San Diego 6 News: “That revelation is important
because Jose, an employee of ALSCO, a nearby business, and a witness to
the accident, told KTLA/Loud Labs (Scott Lane) the car was traveling at
a high rate of speed and he saw sparks coming from the car and saw it
explode BEFORE hitting the tree.”
Hastings, who was 33-years-old when he died, had received threats
from government officials in response to his work. In one of his books,
he revealed that a staffer of General Stanley McCrystal, whose career
was ended in part by an exposé written by Hastings, had told him, “We’ll
hunt you down and kill you if we don’t like what you write.”
In response to recent attention to Hastings’ death, a CIA
spokesperson told reporters that, “any suggestion that Director Brennan
has ever attempted to infringe on Constitutionally-protected press
freedoms is offensive and baseless.”
However, the connection between the death of Hastings and the leaked
CIA email raises serious questions about the death. Los Angeles Police
Department officials have declared that there is no evidence of foul
play.
Hastings was best known for his
Rolling Stone exposé that led to the removal of McCrystal as chief of command in Afghanistan.
Following his death, friends of Hastings explained that the
journalist had been in a particularly agitated state following the
revelations of NSA spying by Edward Snowden in early June. Hastings was
meeting with a WikiLeaks lawyer just hours before the crash.
Another
San Diego 6 News report from July included an
interview with Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs, a close friend of Hastings, who
explained that journalist’s body was returned to family members in an
urn, which was not in line with their wishes. The fact that his body was
returned in this fashion raises even more suspicion regarding his
death.
Biggs also released an email sent out by Hastings prior to his death
with the following subject line: “FBI Investigation, re: NSA.” He
suggested that his associates at BuzzFeed request legal counsel before
speaking to “the Feds,” before adding, “I’m onto a big story and need to
go off the rada[r] for a bit.” Reportedly, Hastings, who frequently
posted to social media web sites, made no such posts during the final
week of his life.
In reference to this email, Biggs told reporters, “This wasn’t an accident, and I will continue to investigate his death.”
