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" It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when that agency is charged with protecting the homeland against terrorists, not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent. "

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" Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama. "

Michael Hastings

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Will

Silly

" I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising. "

Michael Hastings

Journalism

Advertising

" To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other. "

" I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation. "

" My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq. "

" I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure. "

" The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting. "

" By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. "

" In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau. "

" During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions. "

" When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. "

" If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game. "

" Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions. "

" I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record. "

" For me, when I go in to write a profile, and no ground rules are laid down, and I'm there to write an on-the-record profile and cover readings while in the room, then that means it's on the record. "

Michael Hastings

Down

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" I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project. "

" The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire. "

" As for the like of Hillary Clinton, I - you know, I've covered Secretary of State Clinton before. I covered her during her campaign. And she's a very likable and charismatic person once you get the chance to spend any time close to her. "

" General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.' "

" I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy. "

" I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country. "

" The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media. "

" The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit. "

" Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold. "

" As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia grew with each strike: the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. "

" It was either write or die for me. "

Michael Hastings

Die

Write

" Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported. "

" Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work. "

" There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness' and the onset of a covert and illegal campaign of domestic surveillance. "

" Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory. "