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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: tejek who wrote (78626)6/24/2010 12:17:47 PM
From: cirrus  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
It seems it was more than a few hours in a bar or on a bus.

UPDATE: NBC’s chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel spoke with Hastings, who said that the unprecedented access—nearly a month with the general —was not how the military or Rolling Stone had imagined it. Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano trapped the reporter in Paris with McChrystal and his staff. Engel’s comments:

“I just hung up the phone with Michael Hastings who wrote the article for Rolling Stone and—he said it was something of an accident—this article was never meant to be like this. What happened was, Michael Hastings presented this idea to the military, to McChrystal’s military advisors, media advisors, saying ‘I want to do this profile’ ... they agreed, and he was supposed to have two days with him in Paris and then followed up another visit in Afghanistan.”

It appears that McChrystal and his aides may have let their guard down after they got used to having Hastings around.

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Rolling Stone sent a reporter to cover the general's speech in Paris and then the volcano ash problem happened........the reporter ending up taking a bus with the general and his staff to Berlin. That's when he got a lot of the stuff for his article.
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