and neil sheehan he ignores the harm that reporting has cause to america's overseas interests. the firing of general mcchrystal took [unintelligible] what is your reaction to that? you have harmed the situation? >> it is a revision of history. president karzai threatened to join the taliban twice. not only that, president karzai rejected mcchrystal's proposal. he cannot point to anything concrete about what mcchrystal's relationship gains from karzai. well, what did it get us? nothing. the book is called "the operators." our guest is michael hastings. we thank you. >> thank you very much. >> for a dvd copy of this program call 1877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at www.q-an- a.org. "q & a" programs are also available as podcasts. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> next, british prime minister david cameron at the house of commons. after that, wrote to the white house coverage continues in florida with campaigns by newt

i was staying with neil and susan sheehan and i got a call that night to say i'd gotten the cover. >> what year was that? >> when was that? 1963, 64 -- >> the reason i ask is because i think i was the military officer assigned to you in 1966 or 1967 and i haven't seen you since that day, but i'm sure that you got -- >> it was 1967, yes. and i remember that i was done and i thought, well, if i want to shoot, i remember, there were all these photographers with important credentialses and i thought i should go up to arlington cemetery and get everybody coming up. so i got up there early, went up there, and i was waiting and waiting. i was all alone and i thought, well, maybe -- i'm just here and i'll be here until 10:00 tonight. maybe they went a different way. so i went down to see what was happening and by then i saw what was happening and i took a few pictures of everybody in the front of the line. i got norman mailer and robert ludlum and all thoing people, and been spock, and i got one of those pictures inside of "time," then i went back up to arlington cemetery. then there were all