Michael Hastings

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Michael Mahon Hastings (January 28, 1980 – June 18, 2013) was an American journalist, writer, contributing editor to Rolling Stone, and reporter for BuzzFeed.

He was born in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and he attended New York University.

Hastings came to fame in 2000 for his coverage of the Iraq War for Newsweek.

Hastings published his first book, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story (2008), a Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in the Afghanistan war, after his fiancée Andrea Parhamovich was killed in an ambush.

The essay chronicled the widespread contempt for civilian government officials demonstrated by the general and his staff, which culminated in McChrystal's resignation.

During the 2013 Department of Justice prosecuting journalists, Hastings became a vocal critic of the Obama administration, Democratic Party, and surveillance state, referring to journalist restrictions as a "war" on journalism.

BuzzFeed's last report, "Why Democrats Love to Spy On Americans," was published on June 18, 2013.

A year after his death, Blue Rider Press published his first book, The Last Magazine (2014).

Early life and family

Michael was born in Malone, New York, and was the uncle of Molly (née Mahon) and Brent Hastings. Jon and Jeff were Hastings' two brothers. Hastings lived in Malone until he was 11 years old. His family then moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where his mother was educated in pediatric ophthalmology at McGill University. He attended Lower Canada College, a private preparatory high school in Montreal, where he wrote a column for the school's newspaper.

When he was 16, his family moved to Vermont. In South Burlington, Vermont, he attended Rice Memorial High School, a Roman Catholic secondary school. Hastings was elected as the class president in high school, where he ran on a "anti-administration platform." He competed in lacrosse and soccer and was active in the school's plays before graduating in 1998. Hastings wrote for Scholastic, an educational publication for young adults, after graduating. He attended Connecticut College before receiving his Bachelor of Arts in journalism from New York University in 2002.

Elise Jordan, a married journalist from Hastings, died in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in May 2011. Jordan served as a speechwriter for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from 2008 to 2009.

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Career

Hastings began his journalism career as an unpaid intern for Newsweek magazine in 2002, and he was also a regular contributor to Gentlemen's Quarterly and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine.

Hastings started reporting the Iraq War in 2005 while living in Baghdad's NATO-controlled Green Zones. Andrea Parhamovich, Hastings' fiancée, died in 2007. Parhamovich, a former Air America spokeswoman, moved to Baghdad and began working for the National Democratic Institute. Parhamovich and her three security guards were killed after her convoy was hijacked by gunmen, killing Parhamovich and her three security guards. Hastings wrote an article titled I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Novel. Newsweek published an excerpt from the book, in which Hastings recounts the day Parhamovich died just weeks before its publication. The book was given a mixed review by the New York Times.

In June 2010, Rolling Stone published "The Runaway General," Hastings' review of US Army general Stanley McChrystal, then commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in the Afghanistan war. McChrystal's workers made remarks dismissive and dismissive of White House and other civilian officials, according to the column. The anticipation of both the American print media and the White House were piqued on June 22, when the announcement of the forthcoming article caught the American print media and the White House's attention on June 22. McChrystal immediately issued an apology, but Duncan Boothby, the military contractor in charge of coordinating the article with Hastings, resigned. On June 23, President Barack Obama summoned McChrystal to the White House, where he was stripped of command. Hastings expressed his opinion on McChrystal's ties with the Obama administration.

Hastings had been intended to have monitored communication, but it grew when he had to catch a bus to Berlin with the general and his entourage after international flights were grounded due to the air traffic disruptions caused by the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull, which gave him ample time to make up less subtle remarks. In a Newsweek article, Hastings explained how they gained access to McChrystal's inner circles. Hastings was named as a 2010 Game Changer for his reporting, as well as Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi. Hastings was given a Polk Award for his reporting.

Hastings and Eric Bates, executive editor of Rolling Stone, have consistently defended Hastings' report regarding McChrystal. According to The New York Times, the US Army launched an investigation into whether McChrystal and his crew were insubordinate, and concluded that the most inflammatory remarks made by an officer in the Navy Special Warfare Group were made in July 2010. This was later confirmed in Hastings' book The Operators, which was published in January 2012, which attributed a number of troubling quotes to Lt. Now Chief Dave Silverman, the McChrystal Group's CEO, is the McChrystal Group's Commander Dave Silverman. Hastings' article "The Runaway General" had mistakenly quoted people around McChrystal's book "The Runaway General" in which disparaging remarks regarding members of President Obama's national security service, including Vice President Joe Biden, were challenged by a subsequent Pentagon probe. "In some instances, we found no witness who denied making or hearing the remarks as reported," the inquiry says. In other cases, we reported that the general event of an incident occurred but not in the context portrayed in the article. "The Pentagon's inspector general's report contradicts the truth," Rolling Stone said in reaction.

"I did not think Gen. McChrystal would be fired," Hastings said in an interview with NBC's Today show on June 23, 2011. In fact, I felt his position was untouchable, but I was worried it would give them a headache for about 72 hours."

Hastings wrote a long article profiling McChrystal's replacement, General David Petraeus, and detailing Petraeus's war's tactics.

Hastings published The Operators in January 2012, a book that details his travels with General Stanley McChrystal and his staff in April 2010. It featured extensive excerpts from over 20 hours of audio recordings of McChrystal and his inner circle. It was called a "book of uvation" by the Daily Beast, according to the journal. According to the operators, they are supposed to join the pantheon of great GWOT literature." In The Wall Street Journal, analyst Mark Moyar slammed the book, saying, "In comparison to some other correspondents covering Afghanistan, Mr. Hastings has not invested the time required to fully comprehend the war's complexity." However, the Journal failed to announce that Mark Moyar was a US military consultant who served for General Petraeus and General Caldwell. The book became a New York Times bestseller.

Hastings recalled conversations with some of McChrystal's workers in the book, when one of them was "completely shit faced" during a party "you're not going to fuck us." "We'll track you down and kill you if we don't like what we write," the author says. Hastings parroted the inebriated remarks as a joke.

Panic 2012: The Sublime and Terrifying Inside Story of Obama's Last Campaign was published as a downloadable e-book that chronicled Hasting's attempts for re-election along President Barack Obama's incumbent campaign. The account features a profile of press secretary Jay Carney, describing Carney as having "a serious, $10,000-per-day habit of following presidents around the country and the world," as well as a notorious rivalry with White House staff Philippe Reines, a post-election contest with Rahm Emanuel, and other attempts to gain greater access. Penguin/Blue Rider Press first published the script on January 5, 2013.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had been keeping track of the Occupy Wall Street protests since February 2012, according to Rolling Stone, who worked with WikiLeaks, Hastings, and Rolling Stone. According to "Special Coverage: Occupy Wall Street," the DHS' October 2011 study, "mass gatherings associated with public demonstration demonstrations may have disruptive impacts on transportation, commercial, and government services, particularly if staged in major metropolitan cities." "The continuing growth of these demonstrations also puts an increasing strain on law enforcement and movement organizers to control protesters," Hastings said of the DHS study, which concluded, "The continued growth of these demonstrations has also placed an increasingly heavy burden on law enforcement and movement organizers to monitor protesters."

Hastings published an article in June 2012 about Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban while walking off his Army base in Afghanistan in 2009 after being disillusioned with the conflict.

"There are elements within the Pentagon that don't want to make the trade for Bowe Bergdahl," Hastings said in an interview with MSNBC anchor Alex Wagner.

A White House official retaliated on these allegations by notifying Hastings that Sergeant Bergdahl's capture "are irrelevant." In June 2014, Bowe Bergdahl was exchanged for five Taliban prisoners.

Hastings has long been a critic of the US drone program. Hastings denounced President Barack Obama's foreign policy and use of drones as an embrace of Bush-era imperialism and "total militarism." According to Hastings, Obama "enshrines killing people and spying on journalists as the two primary tenets of his national security state." Hastings said that MSNBC reporter Perry Bacon, Jr., was acting as a "stenographer" for the White House during the discussion.

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