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His wife also said: "I have no doubt that he was pursuing a hot story. He always had five hot stories going, I mean, that was Michael."

And: "Right now the LAPD still has an active investigation ... my gut here is that it was just a really tragic accident and I'm unlucky in the world, the world was very unlucky

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Not sure what to think of this story. I would appreciate less political content on 'hacker/startup news.'

That said there is no doubt what Hastings was working on would touch many in the tech community.

As you might think it is political, I think it otherwise. Investigative reporters have been shown to be investigated and their loss of the 1st and 4th amendments very credible.

I think this article and these news stories should be as far reaching and as far spread as they can be to let EVERYONE know they are losing these freedoms unless they take a stand.

The rightful distinction between a political story and a story with politicians involved, yes.

This just feels part-way there, if you get my drift. I fully appreciate the focus on the details given by many here while avoiding the trap.

Yeah I'll go with the "gut" feeling of someone who couldn't possibly have been pressured by anyone to say anything in particular when she goes on a TV show that will be seen internationally.

Oof. I'm not going to argue with you, but that is pretty classic conspiracy theory logic.

I'm not going to argue with you either, but you are terribly naive if you think the circumstances around Michael Hastings death are not incredibly suspicious ;)

It wasn't too long ago that there were classic conspiracy theories about the NSA that would get you labeled as a crackpot which have recently been shown to be true.

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-secur...

and

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

It was hardly a conspiracy theory.

Perhaps the point was that they were derided as being mere conspiracy theories?

Since I failed to mention the number of years I was referring to, I meant further back than last year.

It might be more conspiratorial if the US government hadn't already assassinated no less than 4 American citizens which it immediately covered up and systematically lied about the age and combatant status of said individuals in order to calm the outrage.

This would require the source.

A source:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-michael-hastings...

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