Foul play is always a possibility, but it takes evidence to make it real. All we have now is a car crash, a reporter working on a story, and an email. There are lots of car crashes, and lots of reporters working on big stories--many on the same stories Hastings was pursuing.
We can't rule out foul play but I'm not ready, personally, to rule it in either. There's just not enough there.
"Of course they were; that's how the NSA found out."
Right. Yet to our knowledge the NSA does not have delete privileges to the data centers, meaning that copies of his notes most likely still survive on either local or cloud based storage.
We can't rule out foul play but I'm not ready, personally, to rule it in either. There's just not enough there.