360° Coverage : The Petraeus Scandal: Updates and Commentary

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The Petraeus Scandal: Updates and Commentary

Source: The Nation, Nov 12 2012, 8:26am CST

America, and its media, love a sex scandal, but what happens when the figure at the center of it has been hailed as a hero (I've long referred to him as "St. Petraeus") for almost a decade, his failings, beyond the flesh, ma ...

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3 hours ago

WikiLeaks: Hastings Said He Was Being Investigated By FBI

Source: KCAL Los Angeles | Jun 20 2013, 1:18am CDT

CULVER CITY (CBSLA.com) — Questions persist following the death of Michael Hastings Tuesday, after reports that the award-winning journalist told WikiLeaks the government was watching him. WikiLeaks tweeted a message to their mi ...

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8 hours ago

Michael Hastings told Wikileaks FBI investigating him hours before death.

Source: Hacker News | Jun 19 2013, 8:34pm CDT

Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him. Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few ...

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WikiLeaks Claims Michael Hastings Told Them FBI Was Investigating Him Hours Before He Died

Source: Mediaite.com | Jun 19 2013, 7:24pm CDT

Earlier today, WikiLeaks sent out a cryptic tweet that hinted they had more information about yesterday’s tragic death of reporter Michael Hastings. They followed through with another tweet claiming that Hastings reached out to one of their ...

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WikiLeaks: Michael Hastings Said FBI Was Tracking Him Hours Before His Death

Source: Hollywood Reporter | Jun 19 2013, 6:05pm CDT

The tweet, issued Wednesday to WikiLeaks' 1.9 million followers, reads, "Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him." The journalism community has poured ...

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Michael Hastings contacted Wikileaks lawyer a few hours before death claiming FBI were investigating him

Source: Max Keiser | Jun 19 2013, 5:18pm CDT

Is that the same FBI who staged the False Flag, Crisis Actor, Boston Marathon Massacre Hoax? Let’s hope Matt Taibbi is safe. Operation Mockingbird seems to be going slightly pear-shaped. The Nazi Fascist Gangsters no longer have full spectrum cont ...

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"Why Democrats Love to Spy on Americans": The Late Michael Hastings' Last

Source: Reason | Jun 19 2013, 3:48pm CDT

The energetic and powerful young journalist Michael Hastings, most famous for his reporting on the follies of our Afghanistan intervention, who died yesterday in a car crash in Los Angeles went out with an in ...

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Michael Hastings: speaking truth to power

Source: Hullabaloo | Jun 19 2013, 2:30pm CDT

by digby Michael Hastings: He wasn't one to mince words or suffer fools gladly. Muckrakers tend to be like that. Here is his last column: For most bigwig Democrats in Washington, D.C., the last 48 hours has delivered news of the worst kind — a floo ...

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Michael Hastings, reporter who brought down Gen. McChrystal dies at 33

Source: AMERICAblog | Jun 19 2013, 6:27am CDT

I didn’t know Michael Hastings, but I definitely knew his work. He’s the young journalist, now with Buzzfeed, who did the profile of our then-top general in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, for Rolling Stone. Hastings caught McChrys ...

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Journalist Michael Hastings Dead at 33

Source: 4&20 Blackbirds | Jun 19 2013, 12:06am CDT

The mere fact a journalist who was a dick to those in power died is enough to illicit immediate speculation (I’m looking at you, Bob Brigham). Instead of immediately “going there” it might be more constructive to first focus on why this guy was an insp ...

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"Now, I don't know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually, um, had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. So that's still being vetted."