DoD inquiry clears McChrystal, for the record

[NCTexan]

DOD BUZZ:

 

DoD has released the results of its latest official inquiry into last year’s Rolling Stone profile that terminated the career of Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal — you can read it yourself online here. (pdf) Not surprisingly, the headline is that DoD’s Inspector General couldn’t substantiate many of the events and quotes from the Rolling Stone story. The response of reporter Michael Hastings will probably be: Of course not. Why would my super high-powered mega-sources admit saying those unflattering things to their own chain of command? This was a pre-stalemate even before the investigation hit the ground.

 

Hastings is widely loathed inside the Pentagon and divisive among reporters on the defense beat. When he spoke to a military journalists’ conference in Washington last year, it was a very tense session; he was by turns condescending, defensive, nervous and aggressive when questioned by some of the top players in the game. Hastings believes that Washington reporters are lapdogs, afraid to endanger their cozy relationships with officialdom, and as such they were jealous an outsider like him could drop such a bombshell as the McChrystal story. For their part, some reporters believe Hastings makes stuff up, or at least plays fast and loose, and has so poisoned the reputation of all reporters in the eyes of military officials that he makes things harder for responsible journalists.

 

[SrWoodchuck]

NCT! Thanks for the post.

 

Hastings ego & agenda will always interfere with a silly thing like factual reportage. He has the "Hunter Thompson" craven image to uphold. Part of the reason for his destructive piece was the fact that he was being refused embedding into an Afghanistan unit. Dis-embedding has got to hurt someone that has such a towering opinion of himself.

[Valin]

NCTexan

 

Not surprisingly, the headline is that DoD’s Inspector General couldn’t substantiate many of the events and quotes from the Rolling Stone story.

 

As many of us who (I don't know) actually follow the who what where why how of this war, strongly suspected. Not that the MSM would actually do something silly like this...what with Lindsey Lohan being such a vital topic, I understand it's really hard to find time to do your own research.

 

Here endth the rant. rant #713,018...sad to say more to follow.