At the Daily Paul, an alert reader expresses my own skepticism about the supposed hit job on Michael Hastings.

Really? For taking down a Pentagon general to exonerate a US President….in the faux-alternative Rolling Stone magazine at that? Really?

They blow up a popular, talented, white, middle-class journalist, with connections at every major media outlet and likely in the Pentagon as well, for that?

And they do it after making sure to let you know (pssst, wink!), via a military officer (who happens to be the journalist’s friend) that the FBI was following the journalist…. and the FBI,  of course, plants a car bomb on the guy, just after interviewing all his friends…

And said journalist turns out to be  connected to Super-Snitch Edward Snowden; to Julian Assange & his Wikileaks circus; to Jeremy Scahill, nemesis of  Blackwater and himself a close friend of Glenn Greenwald (also a fan of Assange and Snowden);  to the Freedom of the Press foundation – the same press outfit that sports Greenwald and Laura Poitras on its board and supported Manning and Assange at the very time it was bringing Edward Snowden to the public’s attention; and to Barret Brown, a self-proclaimed spokesman for Anonymous, who researched and posted the HBGary emails outed by a subgroup of Anonymous, the hacker collective that backs Assange and Manning).

Yikes.

Cointelpro alright. Only, in my estimation, Hastings was less likely to have been a target than he was to have been a player.

So here’s the reader at Daily Paul:

“How many of you really know who Michael Hastings is?

I was very intrigued by the Michael Hastings tragedy especially because he seemed linked to Snowden who really drew my interest in recent days. I first learned about Hasting through this post:
http://www.dailypaul.com/289627/michael-hastings-dead-at-33

There is a video on that thread that showed Hastings as a Ron Paul supporter which immediately hooked me. In that video he continued to share fascinating stories about Afghanistan and a very emotional human story about the family of a dead soldier.. He seemed genuine.

Then some oddities started popping up. The last person who tweeted that he was with Michael Hastings is Jeremy Scahill who I researched and immediately suspected as a left war gatekeeper and controlled opposition for reasons I mentioned in the above thread.

Then I looked into Hastings and found out he had a very unusual story about losing his wife in the Afghan war and wrote a book about it: I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story
(Many of the negative Amazon reviews suggest the book was mainly about him and very little about her.)

Then I realized his current wife Elise Jordan was a speechwriter for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from 2008–2009 and very connected with George W Bush.

Then I read an interview with Julian Assange (who I always suspected as cointelpro):
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/julian-assange-the…
I came away just as unimpressed with Wikileaks from this story as before.

Then finally I read Hasting’s famous Rolling Stone piece about McChrystal:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-runaway-genera…
First off how could Michael Hastings have so much access?

I couldn’t help feeling after reading the Runaway General that the article was a very carefully crafted propaganda piece aimed at the political left to remove Obama from blame and scapegoat McCrystal (who took one for the team.) The general public was growing weary of the war and the story was a basis for the Obama apologists who would say: “It wasn’t Obama’s war…he was removed from what was going on and was reluctant. It was the General’s war..” Furthermore there is a part about how the General was protective of innocent Afghan civilians, how innocent casualties were limited in contrast to how the Russians killed millions. Can you believe that? I couldn’t help but believe this is an incredibly well-crafted war propaganda piece!!!

I think I wanted to believe this story, but now I’m a skeptic again. I wonder how great the web of lies could be? Are many of these journalists intelligence operatives, controlled opposition and gatekeepers? Are these fake stories? Actors? Are fake CIA operative deaths used to promote fear? These are just questions I have… *Sigh*…”