Richard Alan Clarke is an American national security expert, novelist, and former government official. He served as the Counterterrorism Czar for the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure
Michael Mahon Hastings was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone, and reporter for BuzzFeed. He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and he attended New York Uni
Richard A. Clarke
…the same year, he endorsed Barack Obama's reelection for President of the United States. Following the 2013 high-speed fatal car crash of journalist Michael Hastings, a vocal critic of the surveillance state and restrictions on the press freedom under the Obama Administration tenure, Clarke was quoted as saying…
Hastings and Valerie Jarrett in 2012
Tree at the Hastings crash site in July 2013. Coordinates: 34°04′57″N 118°20′19″W / 34.082459°N 118.338603°W / 34.082459; -118.338603 (Tree at crash site of journalist Michael Hastings)
In February 2012, Hastings released an internal document of the United States Department of Homeland Security, which showed that the U.S. government has been keeping tabs on protestors of the Occupy Wall Street movement