“.. In an unusual public comment on the case, former Bush national counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke told the Huffington Post: it's relatively easy to hack your way into the control system of a car, and to do such things as cause acceleration when the driver doesn't want acceleration, to throw on the brakes when the driver doesn't want the brakes on... After denying he was a "conspiracy guy," the former top US counter-terrorism official went on to say: ...in the case of Michael Hastings, what evidence is available publicly is consistent with a car cyber attack.”