Journalist Michael Hastings, who had made enemies in the CIA by investigating the upper echelons of the rogue intelligence agency, was assassinated by the CIA in a “hacked car” crash, WikiLeaks’ released documents suggest. Circumstances around Journalist Michael Hastings’ fatal car crash in 2013 are eerily similar to the CIA’s instructions on orchestrating secret assassinations by “hacking cars“, according to the top-secret intelligence documents leaked by WikiLeaks. Michael Hastings died in 2013 after his car suddenly sped up on a straight Los Angeles street, swerved off the road and crashed into a tree, killing him instantly in the explosion. A vocal critic of the Obama administration’s overreach in spying on American citizens, Hastings had become a thorn in the side of the CIA before his death, publishing fearless articles in mainstream publications and threatening a devastating exposé on CIA director John Brennan. “Consistent with a car cyber attack” Hasting’s death has long been considered suspicious due to the unusual nature of the accident as well as the timing of his death. Fears the journalist was assassinated reached fever-pitch when counterterrorism expert, Richard A. Clarke, described the fatal crash as “consistent with a car cyber-attack”. However the mainstream media quickly dismissed the claim as a conspiracy theory. The [...]