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McChrystal Inquiry Short on Answers

(Sept. 22) -- As the U.S. government and military analysts fret about the "divided" White House war policy supposedly portrayed in Bob Woodward's forthcoming book "Obama's Wars," it's worth recalling this summer's other sensational war expose, the one that got Gen. Stanley McChrystal ousted from his post as commander in...

Pentagon Bounces Rolling Stone Reporter: What Embed Ground Rules Actually Say

(Aug. 4) -- The pen is mighty, but the Pentagon has ways to keep it in check. So learned Rolling Stone writer Michael Hastings on Tuesday when the military announced it would not allow him to embed with the U.S. army in Afghanistan. The decision comes a month and a half after the release of his explosive article on Gen....

Reporter: McChrystal Camp Tried to Censor Profile

(June 24) -- The author of the Rolling Stone magazine profile that led to the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal said he was pressured not to print some of the damning statements made by the U.S. commander in Afghanistan and his top aides about the Obama administration. Now embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan,...

McChrystal Gaffe Spotlights New Breed of Media Adviser

(June 23) -- A savvy young media adviser, a one-time journalist, a college stage actor. These were among the various professional incarnations of the man who inadvertently helped bring down the senior U.S. military leader in Afghanistan. Duncan Boothby, a civilian media adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, was identified...

Obama Gets High Marks for Handling McChrystal Mess

WASHINGTON (June 23) -- The deed is done. President Barack Obama today sacked Gen. Stanley McChrystal as top commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and replaced him with his boss, Gen. David Petraeus. McChrystal's scathing comments in a Rolling Stone article undermined civilian control of the military, Obama said, and...