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Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported.

You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.

Michael Hastings

Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported.

Michael Hastings

In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren't just covering a story, they're a part of it - influencing outcomes, setting expectations, framing candidates - and despite what they tell themselves, it's impossible to both be a part of the action and report on it objectively.

Michael Hastings

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

Michael Hastings

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

Michael Hastings

Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work.

Michael Hastings

As for the like of Hillary Clinton, I - you know, I've covered Secretary of State Clinton before. I covered her during her campaign. And she's a very likable and charismatic person once you get the chance to spend any time close to her.

Michael Hastings

The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and I was the correspondent for 'Newsweek' at the time.

Michael Hastings

When my editors and I at 'Rolling Stone' came up with the idea to do a profile of General McChrystal, I simply just e-mailed General McChrystal's press staff, said we wanted to do a profile, and said if you could give us any time to hang out with the general, that would be great.

Michael Hastings

During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

Michael Hastings

I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.

Michael Hastings

It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when that agency is charged with protecting the homeland against terrorists, not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent.

Michael Hastings

Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.

Michael Hastings

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

Michael Hastings

The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit.

Michael Hastings

If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game.

Michael Hastings

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

Michael Hastings

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.

Michael Hastings

I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure.

Michael Hastings

To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.

Michael Hastings

I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future.

Michael Hastings

Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama.

Michael Hastings