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.