The Atrocity Lessons
... propaganda. (According to the war correspondent Michael Hastings, DoD now employs 27,000 media professionals at $4.7 billion per year and even creates phony Facebook and Twitter accounts of...
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Where’s the Benghazi Justice?
....“Avenge.” That’s the word President Obama used when he spoke to the widow of Sean Smith after his murder in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, as recounted by Michael Hastings in his...
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McChrystal’s Unrevealing Memoir
... resignation, he does not have particularly harsh words for the reporter who wrote it, Michael Hastings. “I was surprised by the tone and direction of the article,” he wrote. He says his wife...
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'The Operators,' by Michael Hastings (Review)
It’s impossible to read The Operators, Michael Hastings’s new book about the Afghanistan War, without contemplating the amount of adoration and contempt it is going to generate in...
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The Real Petraeus Scandal
... pass for the most part, and some of them still are.”But not all of them. In a heated exchange this week on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, former Newsweek journalist Michael Hastings, who...
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When Lois Lane Nails Superman
... her friends, which was leaked to Buzzfeed’s Michael Hastings. It read, in part: “I want you to know, though, that while I worked in Iraq for the paper, Brett never gave me sensitive...
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Meet Paula Broadwell
... January, some said it read more like a love letter to the general than a biography. In a review for Rolling Stone, Michael Hastings called the book “a work of fan fiction so fawning that...
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Juiciest Bits From Michael Hastings Book on Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan
When Michael Hastings’s unflattering Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal hit newsstands 18 months ago, it didn’t take long for the esteemed general to lose his job...
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State Department Aide Tells Reporter to ‘Fuck Off’
... reporters: On Sunday morning, BuzzFeed correspondent Michael Hastings emailed Philippe Reines, Hillary Clinton's longtime aide and personal spokesman at the State Department, asking a...
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cheat Clinton Aide to Reporter: ‘F--k Off’
... longtime aide and personal spokesman Philippe Reines reportedly did just that in a heated email exchange with a BuzzFeed reporter. BuzzFeed’s Michael Hastings emailed Reines, asking him a...
