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And so it goes...
Richard :munchin
Army Probing McChrystal Staff Over Rolling Stone Interview
McClatchy, 3 Aug 2010
The U.S. Army inspector general is investigating whether aides to former Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal were insubordinate when they made a series of derogatory comments about top civilian leaders to a Rolling Stone reporter, McClatchy has learned.
The investigation comes as the Pentagon grapples with how much access the reporter who wrote the piece, Michael Hastings , should have to troops. Hastings was banned from a scheduled embed this September in Afghanistan for being untrustworthy, Col. David Lapan , the director of the Pentagon press office, said Tuesday.
Last month, however, the Army granted Hastings an interview with forces he'd embedded with previously in Afghanistan, saying it saw no harm.
The IG investigators have finished questioning officials and are completing the investigation, Army officials told McClatchy . The officials confirmed the investigation but wouldn't say who asked for it or specify what its scope is. The investigation began shortly after McChrystal was relieved of his command in June.
Maj. Gen. William McCoy Jr. said the investigation "is in review," but declined other comment.
Among those who've been interviewed are staff members of Rolling Stone, one Defense Department official told McClatchy. He spoke only on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing and can't be discussed publicly. Hastings declined to comment.
The Army inspector general can investigate whether military personnel have violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the military standards of conduct or Army regulations.
Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice says that an officer can face court-martial for speaking ill of his civilian leadership: "Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the president, the vice president, Congress , the secretary of defense, the secretary of a military department, the secretary of transportation or the governor or legislature of any state, territory, commonwealth or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct."
If the IG finds violations, he must inform whoever asked for the investigation, and the Army will be compelled to respond.
Shortly after the Rolling Stone article was published, McChrystal was summoned to the White House and relieved of command. He then retired from the Army . That retirement took effect Sunday. Several of McChrystal's aides, who weren't named in the story, remain in the Army , however.
In the article, "The Runaway General," one unnamed McChrystal aide ridicules Vice President Joe Biden — who'd opposed the troop "surge" for Afghanistan — and another describes Richard Holbrooke , the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan , as a "wounded animal."
McChrystal is quoted as saying that the U.S. ambassador in Kabul , Karl Eikenberry , who wrote an e-mail opposing sending the additional troops, "covers his flank for the history books." A McChrystal aide calls National Security Adviser Jim Jones, a retired Marine general, a "clown."
McChrystal has never disputed the accuracy of the account.
The White House didn't respond Tuesday to e-mails seeking comment.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/08/03/98583/army-probing-mcchrystal-staff.html
1stindoor
08-04-2010, 10:43
Saw it coming from the cheap seats. The only real question is who'll pay with a forced resignation of their commission.
Buffalobob
08-04-2010, 11:03
Two thoughts of different nature concerning the article.
McChrystal was not my favorite general but he tried hard to do a good job and I always consider that to be a good thing in a person . His career got ruined and that is enough punishment for him in my opinion(and maybe too much). No need to rub salt in his wounds.
Total waste of time and money to investigate whether a journalist is trustworthy. There is at least one survey a year on how honest people are. Approximately 50% of the people tell one lie per day. Any profession that relies on running ones mouth is likely to have at least its share of dishonest people. All professions, including science and religion, have dishonest/untrustworthy people. I don't like them; but, its a fact of life that there are a lot of them.
Dozer523
08-06-2010, 06:31
It ain't over 'til the wounded are bayoneted; the dead stripped and medals are awarded to those who were 'mostly just standing around'.
It WAS a military operation, ya know.
It WAS a military operation, ya know.
That is an understatement??
I think the next step for BHO/gates is to determine if they want to completely alienate the military by using firing squads on McChrystal's staff,,
or roll-over and ignore the problem(s) of their less than stellar military prowess, as published in the Rolling Stones News..
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236
It is an election season, ya know.
:confused::cool::cool::confused:
blacksmoke
08-08-2010, 14:58
I found a lot of problems with the RS article. It reads just like the rest of the interviews of rock stars and celebrities, with foul language, shit talking, and attitudes more likely to be found in less educated groups of people. If this SPC has had enough power point slides to know not to speak too loosely in front of the media, I have a hard time believing, no matter how long this guy was around, that these career minded staff officers did not.
Wanna bet this will provide but more fodder for the legions of conspiracy minded bloggers out there...
And so it goes...
Richard
Award-winning Journalist Michael Hastings Dies
AP, 19 Jun 2013
Michael Hastings, the war correspondent whose unflinching reporting from Afghanistan led to the resignation of a top U.S. army general, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, according to his employer and family.
Hastings, who was 33, was described by many of his colleagues as an unfailingly bright and hard-charging reporter who wrote stories that mattered. Most recently, he wrote about politics for the news website BuzzFeed, where the top editor said colleagues were devastated by the loss.
"Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians," said Ben Smith, BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief.
Smith said he learned of the death from a family member.
Authorities said there was a car crash early Tuesday in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles that killed a man, but coroner's officials could not confirm whether Hastings was the victim.
Hastings won a 2010 George Polk Award for magazine reporting for his Rolling Stone cover story "The Runaway General."
His story was credited with ending Gen. Stanley McChrystal's career after it revealed the military's candid criticisms of the Obama administration.
Hastings quoted McChrystal and his aides mocking Obama administration officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, over their war policies.
At a Pentagon ceremony for his subsequent retirement in 2010, McChrystal made light of the episode in his farewell address. The four-star general warned his comrades in arms, "I have stories on all of you, photos of many, and I know a Rolling Stone reporter."
When he died, Hastings was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where Managing Editor Will Dana was quoted Tuesday saying Hastings exuded "a certain kind of electricity" that exists in great reporters whose stories burn to be told.
"I'm sad that I'll never get to publish all the great stories that he was going to write, and sad that he won't be stopping by my office for any more short visits which would stretch for two or three completely engrossing hours," Dana said.
Hastings was also an author of books about the wars. "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan" was published late last year and details shocking exploits of the military overseas.
(Cont'd) http://news.yahoo.com/award-winning-journalist-michael-hastings-dies-011045748.html
Wanna bet this will provide but more fodder for the legions of conspiracy minded bloggers out there...
And so it goes...
Richard
Award-winning Journalist Michael Hastings Dies
AP, 19 Jun 2013
Michael Hastings, the war correspondent whose unflinching reporting from Afghanistan led to the resignation of a top U.S. army general, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, according to his employer and family.
Hastings, who was 33, was described by many of his colleagues as an unfailingly bright and hard-charging reporter who wrote stories that mattered. Most recently, he wrote about politics for the news website BuzzFeed, where the top editor said colleagues were devastated by the loss.
"Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians," said Ben Smith, BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief.
Smith said he learned of the death from a family member.
Authorities said there was a car crash early Tuesday in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles that killed a man, but coroner's officials could not confirm whether Hastings was the victim.
Hastings won a 2010 George Polk Award for magazine reporting for his Rolling Stone cover story "The Runaway General."
His story was credited with ending Gen. Stanley McChrystal's career after it revealed the military's candid criticisms of the Obama administration.
Hastings quoted McChrystal and his aides mocking Obama administration officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, over their war policies.
At a Pentagon ceremony for his subsequent retirement in 2010, McChrystal made light of the episode in his farewell address. The four-star general warned his comrades in arms, "I have stories on all of you, photos of many, and I know a Rolling Stone reporter."
When he died, Hastings was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where Managing Editor Will Dana was quoted Tuesday saying Hastings exuded "a certain kind of electricity" that exists in great reporters whose stories burn to be told.
"I'm sad that I'll never get to publish all the great stories that he was going to write, and sad that he won't be stopping by my office for any more short visits which would stretch for two or three completely engrossing hours," Dana said.
Hastings was also an author of books about the wars. "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan" was published late last year and details shocking exploits of the military overseas.
(Cont'd) http://news.yahoo.com/award-winning-journalist-michael-hastings-dies-011045748.html
...Israelis with Kiwi passports spotted at LAX...
Must have been suicide - his hands were taped to the wheel.
So, he got McChrystaled*????
I am trademarking that in case it becomes popular!
So, he got McChrystaled*????
I am trademarking that in case it becomes popular!
Not McChrystaled
He was Hagelated ,, bho is making sure the source of the leak is never found..
mark46th
06-19-2013, 15:54
" ...bho is making sure the source of the leak is never found.. " JJ
He is following Bill and Hilary Clinton's Modus Operandi. If they are dead, they can't appear in court to testify for the prosecution...
I Love The Way This Article Is All About How He Did Take On Or Out A Military General. Not Much On His Death Or Crash.
Conspiracy and Government Assisted Suicide ;)
WikiLeaks @wikileaks
Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.
5:07 PM - 19 Jun 2013
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/347475869629022208
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald
Michael Hastings' final article was on Democrats & the NSA stories http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-on-americans …
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/347329387559002112
TrapLine
06-20-2013, 08:50
It looks to me like you can mess with anyone but the Kenyan CINC.:eek:
Conspiracy and Government Assisted Suicide ;)
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/347475869629022208
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/347329387559002112
Greenwald will say anything at this moment since he's in so deep. For a former gov't lawyer he seems to have a short memory of how painfully boring and clinical a prison adseg unit is. Especially for life...
Scimitar
06-20-2013, 15:21
...Israelis with Kiwi passports spotted at LAX...
MSRLaw, forgive my slow mind....
I'm not tracking your 2004 reference?
S
Tin Foil,
Tin Foil,,
Get your Red Hot Tin Foil here..
:munchin
Evidence Indicates Michael Hastings Was Assassinated…
Posted on 21 June, 2013 by Amy
(Paul Joseph Watson) — The revelation that Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was working on a story about the CIA before his death and had contacted a Wikileaks lawyer about being under investigation by the FBI hours before his car exploded into flames has bolstered increasingly valid claims that the 33-year-old was assassinated.
Hastings died early Tuesday morning in Hollywood when his car allegedly hit a tree at high speed. The Los Angeles Coroner’s office has not yet been able to officially identify the body as Hastings because it is so badly burned.
Skeptics of the official narrative have highlighted eyewitness accounts which state that Hastings’ Mercedes “exploded”.
Images of the vehicle appear to show more damage to the rear, around the area of the fuel tank, than the front, leading to speculation that a car bomb which ignited the fuel could have been responsible for the incident.
“No matter how you slice this particular pie, a Mercedes is not just going to explode into flames without a little assistance,” writes freelance journalist Jim Stone. “Car fires in new cars happen for three main reasons — running the engine out of oil, or running the engine out of coolant, or after an absolutely huge car mangling accident, having the hot side of the battery short out against the frame before it reaches the fuse panel. And for all 3 of those normal reasons, which account for virtually all car fires in modern cars, the fire would have started in the engine compartment, progressed slowly, and scorched the hell out of the paint before ever reaching the gas tank. That clean paint is the be all tell all, Michael Hastings was murdered, and the rest is detail.”
http://gopthedailydose.com/2013/06/21/evidence-indicates-michael-hastings-was-assassinated/
Ok JJ now I know where our office Tinfoil Idiot got his new info for the afternoon rant. He said that the bomb blew the car 150 feet from the start point.
His crazy rants are funny but the scary thing he is a cop and graduated law school.
Ok JJ now I know where our office Tinfoil Idiot got his new info for the afternoon rant. He said that the bomb blew the car 150 feet from the start point.
His crazy rants are funny but the scary thing he is a cop and graduated law school.
B - remember ex-FBI agent Ted Gunderson who warned about the proliferation of secret Satanic groups, the danger posed by the New World Order, a shadow government that would be controlling the US government, that four thousand ritual human sacrifices are performed in New York City every year, and that the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was carried out by the US government. He also believed that in the US there is a secret widespread network of groups who kidnap children and infants, and subject them to Satanic ritual abuse and subsequent human sacrifice.
I wish I could have put that in pink font...
Richard
Tin Foil,
Tin Foil,,
Get your Red Hot Tin Foil here..
:munchin
Here is an alleged video of Hastings blowing through a red light just prior to his demise up the street.
http://youtu.be/gNhqKRugk8Q
For every answer comes a new conspiracy ........he was being chased by CIA operatives, or proof the NSA took control of the cars engine and/or blew it up via 3G. AND the TV crew was planted there to catch it all. AND look at the response time of the Police and FD it was like 20 seconds :D
Here is an alleged video of Hastings blowing through a red light just prior to his demise up the street.
Two(2) emergency vehicles at the accident with-in 2 minutes??
That's proof positive.. It was an execution...
:rolleyes:
Two(2) emergency vehicles at the accident with-in 2 minutes??
That's proof positive.. It was an execution...
:rolleyes:
It would take two minutes to get connected to a 911 operator and answer all their questions. LMAO!
On a more serious note, it would be interesting to see if any of the traffic surveillance grid cameras caught him in route to his destination.
General McChrystal Gives Police Airtight Alibi In Rolling Stone Reporter’s Mysterious Death
DB, 20 Jun 2013
Retired General Stanley McChrystal has been questioned by authorities in the mysterious death of journalist Michael Hastings, sources confirmed Wednesday. Hastings was best known for a 2010 Rolling Stone article which led to McChrystal’s resignation and retirement.
According to investigators, McChrystal was hosting a dinner party at his Alexandria home when Hastings was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles. Attendees at the dinner included prominent defense contractors, professors, and think-tank analysts.
“We had just finished the pork loin when Wadsworth, the butler, came up to Stanley with a silver tray,” said Lesley Scarlet, a graduate student of Yale University. “Stan read the note on the tray and rose to make an announcement. He looked somber and gave a gracious tribute to Mr. Hastings, then offered a toast. Things were understandably awkward, but we continued.”
“You could really tell Stan was all broken up over the whole thing,” said Michael Green, a defense contractor with Boeing.
Hastings is the latest in a string of reporters who have gone missing or died under mysterious circumstances. None of the incidents have been tied to McChrystal, despite his obvious motive and extensive background in special operations.
“I can confirm that Gen. McChrystal was an individual of interest that we questioned in relation to the death of Mr. Hastings,” said Alexandria Police spokesman Col. Allen Mustard. “We responded to a request by the Los Angeles Police Department, but at no time was Gen. McChrystal a suspect.”
Col. Mustard confirmed that “multiple witnesses” were able to corroborate McChrystal’s alibi that the General was “in the dining room, with Mr. Green, Professor Plum and Ms. Scarlet” when the accident took place.
“We have verified the alibi by peeking in the folder sent to us from Los Angeles and have no reason to believe Gen. McChrystal was in any way involved in this incident. I’ve done what you asked, please, just don’t hurt my kids.”
McChrystal gave a brief statement to the media outside his home. Reporters gathered outside were asked to move “a little to the left, closer to the large X in the lawn” prior to him answering any questions.
“Mike’s untimely death was unfortunate. I’m sure the entire world of journalism is saddened to see such a promising career end so suddenly. He was doing just fine and probably had a lot more to give to the profession. Now he can’t do anything about the issues very important people may have told him in confidence and off-the-record.”
When asked about his well-timed dinner party, McChrystal, dressed in a Nehru jacket and holding a cat, thanked his guests “for being honest with the authorities since we all know what happens when we tell the wrong people the wrong things.”
McChrystal ended the news conference by stating he was late for a meeting of his new venture capitol firm D.A.G.G.E.R.
As if on cue, a black helicopter piloted by Jeffrey Sinclair descended from the sky, whisking McChrystal and his cat towards Crystal City.
http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/06/mcchrystal-michael-hastings-alibi/#ixzz2WrLU9iHS
You got me Richard... I thought the butler part was odd, but didn't catch on until Col. Mustard showed up. :p
B - remember ex-FBI agent Ted Gunderson who warned about the proliferation of secret Satanic groups, the danger posed by the New World Order, a shadow government that would be controlling the US government, that four thousand ritual human sacrifices are performed in New York City every year, and that the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was carried out by the US government. He also believed that in the US there is a secret widespread network of groups who kidnap children and infants, and subject them to Satanic ritual abuse and subsequent human sacrifice.
I wish I could have put that in pink font...
Richard
I will pass that on to him ad watch him spin today....:lifter
Spinning him up is my new pass time in the office when I am there. I get him going and out the door I go and leave him to the group to deal with.....
Badger52
06-21-2013, 12:51
Spinning him up is my new pass time in the office when I am there. I get him going and out the door I go and leave him to the group to deal with.....Is that anything like sugaring up the grand-kids right before their parents pick 'em up?
:D