Why Was the FBI Investigating Michael Hastings’ Reporting on Bowe Bergdahl?

By Alice Speri
June 3, 2014 | 4:40 pm

Three years into the disappearance of Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan, Michael Hastings — the journalist whose reporting cost General Stanley McChrystal his job — wrote a Rolling Stone story on the missing soldier, a piece which the magazine called “the definitive first account of Bowe Bergdahl.”

Hastings, who died in a car accident in Los Angeles in June 2013, had unparalleled access for that story.

He spoke to Bergdahl’s parents, who had by that time stopped talking to the press, following “subtle pressure” from the army, and he quoted from emails the young soldier had sent to them, documenting his growing disillusion with the war and the US military.

Hastings also spoke to several unnamed men in Bergdahl’s unit — soldiers who, we now know, had to sign a strict nondisclosure agreement forbidding them from discussing the soldier’s disappearance and search with anyone — let alone one of the top investigative journalists in the country.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

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Hastings, who died in a car accident in Los Angeles in June 2013, had unparalleled access for that story.

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Mystery grows: Journalist died prepping Obama exposé
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http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/mystery-grows...g-obama-expose/