Journo who felled US general McChrystal dies in crash

June 19, 2013 09:16

Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone journalist who triggered the 2010 downfall of US Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, died in a car crash, his employer has announced.

Hastings, whose profile of McChrystal quoted the four-star general as criticizing President Barack Obama and his senior advisers, died in Los Angeles yesterday. He was 33, according to his current employer, BuzzFeed.

"We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone," said Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of the news website which the late reporter joined in February last year.

"Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians," he added.

McChrystal was summoned to Washington by Obama in June 2010 and swiftly relieved of his command after comments attributed to him and his aides in the magazine article, headlined "The Runaway General."

In the profile, McChrystal aides mocked Vice President Joe Biden, called the president's national security adviser "a clown," and said the general was "disappointed" by his first meeting with Obama.

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