Award-winning journalist Michael Hastings dies in mysterious car crash

Some of his work: The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret

Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview

Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators

America’s Last Prisoner of War

Hillary Clinton Aide Tells Reporter To “Fuck Off” And “Have A Good Life”

And this from an AMA session on reddit:

Yes. Every once and awhile, I’ll get a death threat from someone—like, “if we don’t like what you write, we’ll hunt you down and kill you” kind of thing. But there’s a more insidious response most of the time when you piss off the powerful. They come after your career, they try to come after your credibility. They do cocktail party whisper campaigns. They try to make you “controversial.” Sadly, The Powers That Be are often aided by other journalists.

The Pentagon has launched three investigations into stories I’ve done over the past 18 months under the pretense of finding the wrongdoing we were exposing. But the investigations were really about creating a Pentagon approved official document to criticize journalism they don’t like.

It sure makes me wonder what he was about to publish…