“Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program became public. Hastings was convinced he was a target. [..] He came to believe his Mercedes was being tampered with. ‘Nothing I could say could console him,’ Thigpen says. One night in June, he came to Thigpen’s apartment after midnight and urgently asked to borrow her Volvo. He said he was afraid to drive his own car. She declined. [..] ‘He was scared, and he wanted to leave town,’ she says. The next day, around 11:15 a.m., she got a call from her landlord, who told her Hastings had died early that morning.”
http://www.laweekly.com/2013-08-22/news/michael-hastings-crash/full/
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