Hastings Was Working on Story About CIA

[AuH20]

The Criminal Intelligence Agency does not like sunlight.

http://www.infowars.com/friend-michael-hastings-was-working-on-biggest-story-yet-about-cia/

[AuH20]

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-michael-hastings-the-importance-of-not-following-the-rules-20130619,0,7275686.story



When he died, Hastings was working on a story about CIA Director John Brennan.

[AuH20]

I hope that Hastings wasn't digging at this tree. No wonder he got killed.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/01/10/john-brennan-the-cia-zibgnew-brezinski-columbia-university-and-obama/


The trip to Pakistan was unexpectedly noted in an April 2008 fundraiser . We wrote about it HERE. Just two weeks before this speech and surprise announcement of his 1981 visit to Pakistan, employees of John Brennan (who would become Obama’s terror chief) were caught tampering with Obama’s passport files. It should be noted that “Obama’s top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that was cited in March 2008 (just before this April fundraiser) for breaching sensitive files in the State Department’s passport office, according to a State Department Inspector General’s report released July 2009. On April 19th the key figure Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found slumped dead inside a car.

[Aratus]

agreed, AuH20!
the CPU car chip
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thread here hints
at this gently...

[Peace Piper]

On April 19th the key figure Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found slumped dead inside a car.

Oh look, another dead guy.

Probably just drunk and depressed. Nothing to get curious about at all.


Key witness in passport fraud case fatally shot

A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.

Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department’s Criminal Investigations Division.

Cmdr. Anzallo said a police officer was patrolling the neighborhood when gunshots were heard, then Lt. Harris was found dead inside the vehicle, which investigators would describe only as a blue car.

Emergency medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/lt-quarles-harris-24.jpg?w=594

City police said they do not know whether his death was a direct result of his cooperation with federal investigators.

“We don’t have any information right now that connects his murder to that case,” Cmdr. Anzallo said.

Police say a “shot spotter” device helped an officer locate Lt. Harris.

A State Department spokeswoman yesterday declined to comment, saying the investigation into the passport fraud is ongoing.

The Washington Times reported April 5 that contractors for the State Department had improperly accessed passport information for presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, which resulted in a series of firings that reached into the agency’s top ranks.

One agency employee, who was not identified in documents filed in U.S. District Court, was implicated in a credit-card fraud scheme after Lt. Harris told federal authorities he obtained “passport information from a co-conspirator who works for the U.S. Department of State.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/key-witness-in-passport-fraud-case-fatally-shot/


Everyone should remember that this is the kind of person that is in charge:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y

These psychopaths think nothing about killing. It's a sport.

[AuH20]

Oh look, another dead guy.

Probably just drunk and depressed. Nothing to get curious about at all.


Key witness in passport fraud case fatally shot

A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.

Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department’s Criminal Investigations Division.

Cmdr. Anzallo said a police officer was patrolling the neighborhood when gunshots were heard, then Lt. Harris was found dead inside the vehicle, which investigators would describe only as a blue car.

Emergency medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/lt-quarles-harris-24.jpg?w=594

City police said they do not know whether his death was a direct result of his cooperation with federal investigators.

“We don’t have any information right now that connects his murder to that case,” Cmdr. Anzallo said.

Police say a “shot spotter” device helped an officer locate Lt. Harris.

A State Department spokeswoman yesterday declined to comment, saying the investigation into the passport fraud is ongoing.

The Washington Times reported April 5 that contractors for the State Department had improperly accessed passport information for presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, which resulted in a series of firings that reached into the agency’s top ranks.

One agency employee, who was not identified in documents filed in U.S. District Court, was implicated in a credit-card fraud scheme after Lt. Harris told federal authorities he obtained “passport information from a co-conspirator who works for the U.S. Department of State.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/key-witness-in-passport-fraud-case-fatally-shot/


Everyone should remember that this is the kind of person that is in charge:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y

These psychopaths think nothing about killing. It's a sport.

Nice find. Too bad the media refused to investigate. We're living in the Game of Thrones. It's no longer viewed as a high fantasy series, sans the dragons.

[Dianne]

Obama admin killing peeps at record levels ... anyone who exposes their corruption.

http://www.dailypaul.com/290379/boom-richard-clarke-hastings-accident-consistent-with-a-car-cyber-attack

[donnay]

Obama admin killing peeps at record levels ... anyone who exposes their corruption.

http://www.dailypaul.com/290379/boom-richard-clarke-hastings-accident-consistent-with-a-car-cyber-attack


Reminds me of the Clintons years. Last I remember the body count was 56 by the time they left office.

[Working Poor]

This will never fly in the media while Obama is in office ... Even if it did it would be spun to be a futile attempt by birthers to fabricate evidence against him.

[AuH20]

Just like Cheney, it appears that Obama has his own assassination team:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/books/item/15749-pres-obama-s-secret-cia-hit-squad-detailed-in-the-way-of-the-knife

[jclay2]

Conspiracy?

"Doesn't Exist"
"Doesn't Exist"
"Doesn't Exist"
"nanananananananan"

[Reason]

F**K.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Whistleblower John Kiriakou: For Embracing Torture, John Brennan a "Terrible Choice to Lead the CIA"http://www.pdamerica.org/news/item/1307-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-for-embracing-torture-john-brennan-a-terrible-choice-to-lead-the-cia

(http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/44-2013/2601-cias-ad-campaign-to-promote-another-torturer) Days after he was sentenced to 30 months in prison, John Kiriakou — the first CIA official to be jailed for any reason relating to the torture program — denounces President Obama’s appointment of John Brennan to head the CIA.

"I’ve known John Brennan since 1990," Kiriakou says. "I worked directly for John Brennan twice. I think that he is a terrible choice to lead the CIA. I think that it’s time for the CIA to move beyond the ugliness of the post-September 11th regime, and we need someone who is going to respect the Constitution and to not be bogged down by a legacy of torture."

http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/44-2013/2601-cias-ad-campaign-to-promote-another-torturer (http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/44-2013/2601-cias-ad-campaign-to-promote-another-torturer)


CIA's Ad-Campaign to Promote Another Torturer (http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/44-2013/2601-cias-ad-campaign-to-promote-another-torturer)

by Jesselyn Radack on March 27, 2013 ( The Whistleblogger (http://www.whistleblower.org/blog) / 2013 (http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/44-2013)  )


http://www.whistleblower.org/storage/cia_logo.jpgToday's [I]Washington Post has a front-page article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-director-faces-a-quandary-over-clandestine-service-appointment/2013/03/26/5d93cb10-9645-11e2-9e23-09dce87f75a1_story.html?hpid=z2) on the impending promotion of an official involved in running the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) torture program to head the CIA clandestine service. According to WaPo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-director-faces-a-quandary-over-clandestine-service-appointment/2013/03/26/5d93cb10-9645-11e2-9e23-09dce87f75a1_story.html?hpid=z2), the officer
helped run the CIA’s detention and interrogation program after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and signed off on the 2005 decision to destroy videotapes of prisoners being subjected to treatment critics have called torture.
WaPo reports that newly-confirmed CIA director John Brennan (who was also involved in the CIA's torture program and has since moved on to writing an assassination-without-due-process "playbook" (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/25/1149881/-The-Sport-of-Killing-Brennan-s-Assassination-Playbook)) has tapped three former senior officials to oversee the appointment of the former chief of staff to brazen torture apologist Jose Rodriguez to head the CIA's clandestine service. The group consists of John McLaughlin (CIA deputy director during the CIA's torture heyday), Stephen Kappes (another rendition, torture, and interrogation (RDI) supervisor - read about his covering up a prisoner's death here (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/01/steve-kappes-detainee-deaths_n_521615.html)) and Mary Margaret Graham (whose problematic professional history you can read about in Steve Coll's recent New Yorker piece (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/01/130401fa_fact_coll) on CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou (http://www.defendjohnk.com)). Does anyone not see the problem with RDI daddy Brennan assigning RDI supervisors to promote the RDI queenpin? Not only has the Obama administration refused to hold professionally or criminally liable any of the government officials who sanctioned torture, tortured prisoners, and covered it up, but those officials are being consistently promoted to government positions of greater power. Meanwhile, the only person to serve any prison time in relation to the CIA's torture program is the whistleblower, my client John Kiriakou.

I wrote (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/26/1197034/-New-Yorker-Lays-Bare-Government-s-Hypocrisy-on-Leaks-CIA-Whistleblower-John-Kiriakou) about Coll's New Yorker article yesterday, but the piece has many threads to pull. Coll's piece (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/01/130401fa_fact_coll) revealed the disturbing track of the investigation that eventually led to Kiriakou being the only person to go to jail in relation to the CIA's torture program. The investigation began because defense attorneys for Guantanamo detainees "sought evidence that their clients had been tortured by the C.I.A. . ." Coll reports (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/01/130401fa_fact_coll) that when defense lawyers submitted a classified filing on behalf of their clients with interrogators' names, it led to an investigation in which then-U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and
. . . a team of prosecutors and F.B.I. agents . . . [f]or more than two years . . .secretly investigated the A.C.L.U. and other defense lawyers working at Guantanamo on behalf of Al Qaeda detainees . . . [a defense lawyer] told [Coll] that Fitzgerald had handled the matter sensitively, but he also blamed the investigation on a behind-the-scenes campaign by C.I.A. leaders who, in [the defense lawyer's] view sought to intimidate those defense lawyers who had raised the issue of agency torture.
There is something frighteningly disturbing about the Justice Department spending years investigating the ACLU but not the architects of the torture program. The monumental injustice that Coll's article (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/01/130401fa_fact_coll) lays bare is that the Obama administration next targeted Kiriakou for criminal prosecution rather than the government officials who approved torture, tortured prisoners, and covered up the torture program, who are enjoying Hollywood glorification and book tours bragging about how awesome it was to torture prisoners. Now, despite that the Obama administration supposedly condemned the torture program, WaPo's article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-director-faces-a-quandary-over-clandestine-service-appointment/2013/03/26/5d93cb10-9645-11e2-9e23-09dce87f75a1_story.html?hpid=z2) reveals another torturer whose career trajectory is rocketing upward, while Kiriakou - who never tortured anyone and helped expose the torture program - is serving 30 months in prison.

(A quick aside to note that WaPo refused to publish the name of the soon-to-be head of the clandestine service because she is "undercover," but it is clear that WaPo knows the name, and so do a number of human rights activists. Somehow it seems unlikely that whoever gave WaPo the name will be criminally charged, but that is exactly what CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou is sitting in jail for pleading guilty to - confirming the name of a torturer to a self-described reporter, who did NOT publicly publish the name).

In an extraordinary piece (http://www.thenation.com/article/173521/obamas-crackdown-whistleblowers) by Tim Shorrock in The Nation, the ACLU's Jameel Jaffer had this to say about four of my NSA clients:
Because of their experience in some of the NSA’s most secret programs, the NSA Four are “indispensable” to understanding the agency’s unconstitutional operations, said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director for the ACLU. “NSA is an extraordinarily powerful agency with sophisticated technology that is poorly understood by many experts. It operates behind a veil of secrecy that is penetrated only occasionally by whistleblowers like these.”
(emphasis added) Jaffer's statement could just as easily apply to CIA whistleblowers like Kiriakou, and the CIA's torture program, about which - in Coll's words (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/01/130401fa_fact_coll) - "little is known about how that [torture] policy was carried out over years by intelligence officers, government lawyers, and medical doctors."
If the reward for exposing torture is a prison sentence, then the CIA agents who witness the CIA's next attempt to present a morally-repugnant practice like torture (such as assassination without due process) as acceptable government policy will be even more pressured to stay silent. With the same officials who orchestrated the torture program still in charge at CIA, there is nothing to deter them from straying from basic human rights principles again, and there will be no whistleblowers to tell us when they do.

Jesselyn Radack is National Security & Human Rights Director for the Government Accountability Project, the nation's leading whistleblower (http://www.whistleblower.org) protection and advocacy organization.

[AuH20]

A Big Story that drove Hasting undergound? Like I said before, he probably stumbled upon the breadcrumb trail of the Brennan/Obama/CIA Connection which goes back to the early 1980s.

http://www.infowars.com/michael-hastings-wife-vows-to-take-down-whoever-did-this/


Staff Sergeant Joseph Biggs, who yesterday told Fox News that Hastings was working on “the biggest story yet” about the CIA before his untimely death, was responsible for releasing an email Hastings wrote 15 hours before his car crash in which the journalist stated he was “onto a big story” and needed “to go off the rada[r] for a bit.”Biggs tweeted that the reason he released the email was because Hastings’ other friends and colleagues who received it were “too scared” to do so.

[angelatc]

Why do you think all the other whistleblowers aren't dead?

And why would they not kill his wife, too? There's no reason not to assume she knew what he was working on, is there?

Did they go to his home and steal all his papers and computers?

[AuH20]

Why do you think all the other whistleblowers aren't dead?

And why would they not kill his wife, too? There's no reason not to assume she knew what he was working on, is there?

Did they go to his home and steal all his papers and computers?

Leaving an extensive body trail would bodly reinforce all the allegations. We need to see how this shakes out. I wonder if his investigative report will ever see the light of day.

[angelatc]

Leaving an extensive body trail would bodly reinforce all the allegations. We need to see how this shakes out. I wonder if his investigative report will ever see the light of day.


AN extensive body trail is one thing, but it would seem relatively easy to kill a husband and wife together in the same car.