The McChrystal Bombshell

A Q&A with CNN's former senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre about Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone Magazine and his article on General Stanley McChrystal, the now-former Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

McIntyre says, "These military officials that we're following around, they're not our friends. We're frenemies, we're not friends. You know, one thing we've learned from this whole episode is that military officers cannot tell you what they're really thinking without being in peril of losing their jobs. So the dirty little secret is yeah, we sort of informally agree not to report a lot of things that we see and hear, some of it for legitimate security reasons, and some of it because it could just be embarrassing. And the tradeoff is we get a continued relationship with these people and we can get information. And by the way, it is information that we can still hold them accountable for, it's just that we sort of cover them."