{"id":37085,"date":"2018-08-26T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37085"},"modified":"2018-08-26T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T13:39:07","slug":"five-years-on-death-of-journalist-michael-hastings-remains-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37085","title":{"rendered":"Five Years On, Death of Journalist Michael Hastings Remains a Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five Years On, Death of Journalist Michael Hastings Remains a Mystery<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

Michael Hastings was one of America\u2019s most popular modern journalists, perhaps best known for his 2010\u00a0expose<\/a>\u00a0in Rolling Stone magazine, The Runaway General, which led to the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal, then commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

In the early hours of June 18, 2013, a vehicle purported to have been driven by Michael Hastings\u00a0crashed<\/a>\u00a0in Los Angeles, thus snuffing out the life of an already prolific young talent whose best years were still ahead of him. And that is where the worst part of this tragedy begins: the death of Michael Hastings, despite him being an influential member of the journalistic community, was never given the thorough investigative approach it rightly deserved.<\/p>\n

This article will not go into all of the details of Hastings\u2019 life, since much of that is already known. Suffice it to say that the author probably had just as many enemies \u2013 many of them high-ranking officials \u2013 as he had friends. Ruining the career of an Army general, while declaring on one occasion that the media should\u00a0\u201cdeclare war\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on the government, has a tendency to do those things. On top of that, Wikileaks reported that Hastings had contacted them just hours before his death, saying he was under investigation by the FBI. The federal agency, however, denied the claim. Those bits of information were enough for many people to frame his premature and very violent death as some sort of premeditated murder.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, maybe Hastings was never actually killed on the morning of June 18, 2013. I understand that idea will probably sound outrageous, but once one compares the information contained in Hastings\u2019\u00a0autopsy report<\/a>\u00a0with the observable evidence from the crash that possibility appears more plausible. More on that in a moment.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five Years On, Death of Journalist Michael Hastings Remains a Mystery Michael Hastings was one of America\u2019s most popular modern journalists, perhaps best known for his 2010\u00a0expose\u00a0in Rolling Stone magazine, The Runaway General, which led to the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal, then commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan. In the early hours of June […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[462,21415,15947,8203],"class_list":["post-37085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-journalism","tag-michael-hastings","tag-robert-bridge","tag-strategic-culture-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37086,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37085\/revisions\/37086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}