Email from Michael Hastings before crash mentions FBI probe

[Cali_Democrat]

By Andrew Blankstein and Brian Bennett
June 21, 2013, 12:29 p.m.


In an email sent hours before his death in a single-car L.A. crash, journalist Michael Hastings wrote that his “close friends and associates” were being interviewed by the FBI and he was going to “go off the radar for a bit.”

According to the email, sent to KTLA, Hastings wrote he was working on a “big story” and was going to disappear. He told his colleagues that if the FBI came to interview them, they should have legal counsel present.

The subject of the email was “FBI Investigation re: NSA.” Hastings sent the email to his colleagues just before 1 p.m. Monday and blind-copied his friend, Staff Sgt. Joseph Biggs.

Biggs supplied the email to KTLA and said he and Hastings met when the journalist was embedded with Biggs’ unit in Afghanistan in 2008, KTLA reported.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hastings-crash-emails-20130621,0,2806628.story

[kentuck]

1. Shit!

What's next?

[msongs]

2. yeah but he was driving so you KNOW there could be no funny business in his sudden death nt

[Cali_Democrat]

4. The FBI has denied any probe of hastings

Either Hastings god bad information or the FBI is lying.

[okaawhatever]

3. I thought he was working on something about the chick who was dating Patreus. She is suing the

government for releasing details about who she was.
One of the big questions would be is where was he just prior to the accident?

[Cali_Democrat]

5. I believe he was