So someone high up the chain is canceling approval of his embed request to accompany troops in Afghanistan—a request that appeared on track for approval. Their reasons for thinking him untrustworthy: unspecified.

Hastings insisted he violated no rules while reporting the profile of McChrystal, and said he has built a trusted record among troops over dozens of embeds in Afghanistan and Iraq dating back five years...

A military official in Afghanistan, who would only speak anonymously out of fear of being punished, confirmed Hastings’ account that the decision to deny his embed request came suddenly from top-level commanders and did not result from any any mistrust expressed by ground-level units.