Report: Michael Hastings feared his car had been tampered with
<http://www.salon.com/2013/08/21/report_michael_hastings_feared_his_car_had_been_tampered_with/>
According to the LA Weekly, reporter Michael Hastings asked to
borrow a friend's car shortly before his death
By Jillian Rayfield <http://www.salon.com/writer/jillian_rayfield/>
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Topics: Michael Hastings <http://www.salon.com/topic/michael_hastings>,
BuzzFeed <http://www.salon.com/topic/buzzfeed>, conspiracy theory
<http://www.salon.com/topic/conspiracy_theory>, Los Angeles
<http://www.salon.com/topic/los_angeles>, Politics News
<http://www.salon.com/category/politics/>
Report: Michael Hastings feared his car had been tampered with
<http://media.salon.com/2013/06/hastings-death.jpeg-1280x960.jpg>(Credit: AP)
War correspondent Michael Hastings, who died in a car crash in April,
had reportedly become concerned that his car had been tampered with in
the days leading up to his death, and asked friend Jordanna Thigpen to
borrow hers, according to new profile in the LA Weekly
<http://www.laweekly.com/2013-08-22/news/michael-hastings-crash/>.
From the report:
Helicopters often circle over the hills, but Hastings believed there
were more of them around whenever he was at home, keeping an eye on
him. He came to believe his Mercedes was being tampered with.
"Nothing I could say could console him," Thigpen says.
One night in June, he came to Thigpen's apartment after midnight and
urgently asked to borrow her Volvo. He said he was afraid to drive
his own car. She declined, telling him her car was having mechanical
problems.
"He was scared, and he wanted to leave town," she says.
The next day, around 11:15 a.m., she got a call from her landlord,
who told her Hastings had died early that morning. His car had
crashed into a palm tree at 75 mph and exploded in a ball of fire.
According to the LA Weekly, this was not the only indication of
Hastings' "increasingly erratic" behavior, as writer Gene Maddaus put
it, in the days leading up to his death:
The day before Hastings died, he sent an email to his BuzzFeed
bosses with the subject line "FBI investigation, re: NSA." The email
informed them that "the Feds are interviewing 'my close friends and
associates,' " and advised them to get a lawyer if they were
contacted. (No friends or associates have stepped forward to say
that they were interviewed, and the FBI has denied it was
investigating Hastings.)
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