February 22: Michael Hastings won the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting for his Rolling Stone piece, “The Runaway General,” which brought down Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
Hastings has now written another Rolling Stone article that reflects poorly on a U.S. General in Afghanistan. The new article details how Lt. Gen. William Caldwell "illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in 'psychological operations' to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war" and then railroaded the whistle-blowing officer who objected to the program.
In all fairness, though, I doubt it took much manipulation.
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