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" 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. "
Michael Hastings
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" 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. "
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Know
Time
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" The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and I was the correspondent for 'Newsweek' at the time. "
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" I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country. "
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" 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. "
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World
Trade
Terrorism
" I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure. "
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Position
Thought
Gen
" The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress. "
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Attached
Fact
Military
" My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq. "
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Younger Brother
Combat
" The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media. "
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Always
His
" 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. "
Michael Hastings
Kind
Experience
Democracy
" 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. "
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Good
Now
Pretty
" 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. "
Michael Hastings
Die
Know
Men
" I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation. "
Michael Hastings
Generation
Reporter
Want
" 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. "
Michael Hastings
Late
Twice
News
" In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren't just covering a story, they're a part of it - influencing outcomes, setting expectations, framing candidates - and despite what they tell themselves, it's impossible to both be a part of the action and report on it objectively. "
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Story
Action
Expectations
" 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. "
Michael Hastings
Perspective
War
Create
" Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control. "
Michael Hastings
Never
Control
Fact
" 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. "
Michael Hastings
Military
Fire
War
" By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. "
Michael Hastings
Story
Sentence
Second
" 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. "
Michael Hastings
Family
Deep
Work
" 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. "
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Leader
Small
Landscape
" When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer. "
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Deep
Passion
Love
" When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. "
Michael Hastings
Writing
Sentence
Mass
" General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.' "
Michael Hastings
Stone
Rolling
General
" 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. "
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Media
Will
Silly
" During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions. "
Michael Hastings
Only
Military
Invasion
" 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. "
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Leap
Awareness
Surveillance
" 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. "
Michael Hastings
Night
White
September
" 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. "
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Rules
Powerful
Conversation
" If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job. "
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Good
Political
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