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Michael Hastings called it: 'The Obama administration has clearly declared war on the press'
Michael Hastings researching Jill Kelley case before death LATimes ^ | June 20, 2013 | Brian Bennett
Posted on Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:29:44 PM by maggief
WASHINGTON – During the weeks before he was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles, reporter Michael Hastings was researching a story about a privacy lawsuit brought by Florida socialite Jill Kelley against the Department of Defense and the FBI.
Hastings, 33, was scheduled to meet with a representative of Kelley next week in Los Angeles to discuss the case, according to a person close to Kelley. Hastings wrote for Rolling Stone and the website BuzzFeed.
Kelley alleges that military officials and the FBI leaked her name to the media to discredit her after she reported receiving a stream of emails that were traced to Paula Broadwell, a biographer of former CIA director David H. Petraeus, according to a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., on June 3 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3033683/posts
Journalist Michael Hastings, who died last week in a fiery single-car crash in Hancock Park, was not working on a story about Florida socialite Jill Kelley, his wife said.
Elise Jordan posted a message on Twitter on Tuesday morning: "To correct the record, since I've seen it erroneously reported a few times: @mmhastings was not working on a story about Jill Kelley."
She also thanked people for their "love, support and friendship" after the death of Hastings, who was best known for a 2010 Rolling Stone profile that led to the resignation of Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
A person close to Kelley had told The Times that Hastings was scheduled to meet with a representative of Kelley's this week in Los Angeles to discuss the case.
Why would Hastings want to spend his valuable time interviewing that social climber?
I've read on various blogs that Jill Kelley has some Benghazi related information due to her "friendships" with Petraeus and General Allen. Doubtful. Last people on earth you'd confide in are Paula and Jill - 2 very creepy women - unless you really really wanted your "secret" published in the National Enquirer.