Journalist Who Brought Down Gen. McChrystal Dies In Car Accident
From the Blog khudi *rollingstone.com* June 19, 2013 *Editor's note: Journalists who mess with government and military power often die under mysterious circumstances.* [image: Michael-Hastings] Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33. Hastings' unvarnished 2010 profile of McChrystal in the pages of Rolling Stone, "The Runaway General," captured the then-supreme commander of the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan openly mocking his civilian commanders in the White House. The maelstrom sparked by its publication concluded with President Obama recalling McChrystal to Washington and the general resigning his post. "The conduct represented in the recpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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