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Psychology is a discipline meant to help us understand how people think, behave, act, and react to all the various situations that can occur in life. And

Ordered to really butter up and manipulate visiting persons such as senator john mccain from the senate appropriations committee, such as diplomats that might be coming in, jack reed, al franken, karl levin, joe lieberman. very prominent people in the military business and the idea was to collect information on them and find pressure points or as the chief of staff or the general reportedly told colonel holmes, get inside their head, find the pressure points. and the idea was to get more money a...

Afghanistan was encouraging to go on facebook and twitter, basically making no distinction between foreign audiences and domestic audiences. thats why with colonel holmes story, i think we sort of see a -- its a window into this larger, and to me much more troubling trend of the tens of millions of dollars being spent to influence american public opinion and using people with the wrong skill sets to do so. a lot more happening in wisconsin. police are sent to several democratic lawmakers homes...

Show you some sort of a village, as reporters you find yourself in these dog and pony shows and think wait a minute, this isnt real. what is different about this? >> its certainly part of the same larger picture. but the issue is the resource or the weapon the military is employing to do that. when were out there, were with public affairs and we know their job is to spin us and put the best face on things. this is a great question, right? if you found out your team showing you around had -- just...

Convince them that this is a sinking regime, and theres no point in going down with it. theyve even been in contact with gadhafis tribe itself, explaining to them that they have no problems, no qualms with the tribe. they just need to get rid of colonel moammar gadhafi. we know that they are trying to beef up their forces in the eastern part of the country. primarily in the defense that moammar gadhafi launches a counteroffensive. but they are trying to coordinate with the towns and villages in ...

They are in close contact with people in the western part of the country. for instance, theyre contacting tribal leaders, trying to convince them that this is a sinking regime, and theres no point in going down with it. theyve even been in contact with gadhafis tribe itself, explaining to them that they have no problems, no qualms with the tribe. they just need to get rid of colonel moammar gadhafi. we know that they are trying to beef up their forces in the eastern part of the country. primaril...

But to this story, what i think -- what i firmly believe is that this is a story at the very at least about the misuse of resources. colonel holmes and his team were trained to influence the taliban, influence the afghan population. when they got to afghanistan, they were told your skill set is going to be used on visiting senators. it just shows its a very slippery slope when you have an information cell that has specialized in psychological operations, military deception, and youre applying th...

Of public affairs what you can call propaganda and that wall being torn down and essentially an operation that seemed to me run amuck. you know, the command in afghanistan was encouraging to go on facebook and twitter, basically making no distinction between foreign audiences and domestic audiences. thats why with colonel holmes story, i think we sort of see a -- its a window into this larger, and to me much more troubling trend of the tens of millions of dollars being spent to influence america...

>> shepard: top u.s. commander in afghanistan ordering an investigation tonight. the move comes after a report in rolling stone magazine that broke overnight that a top general tried to get the military teen to use psychological operations on visiting american senators. illegal. and they wanted him to do it so they would sign off on more money for the war. just into fox news in the last few minutes, we are hearing from the accuser for the first time. jennifer griffin our pentagon correspondent l...

When were out there, were with public affairs and we know their job is to spin us and put the best face on things. this is a great question, right? if you found out your team showing you around had -- just had completed a 40-hour course in psychological operations and was trained in psy-ops, you start to question is that an appropriate use of that resource? colonel holmes team cost approximately $6 million a year there. so is that an appropriate use of taxpayer money to wage a propaganda war? i ...