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Charge of this. >> right. >> and who holmes sort of accuses of giving this order, he is categorically denying this and says he was not giving holmes an illegal order. >> all right. chris, well get back to you. i want to bring in the man at the center of the story army lieutenant colonel michael holmes in tucson, arizona. first of all, thank you for joining us. there are a lot of allegations here that are flying back and forth from both sides but we have few specifics and we would like for you to...

But when they got there, general caldwell and his staff said, hey, no, we want you to start, you know, using -- we want you to actually work on influencing senators and other military officials visiting to help sort of grease the skids and get what they want. then what happens was the leader of the -- of this information operation cell said hey, that sounds illegal to me. and that was later confirmed with a legal opinion he received from a j.a.g. lawyer. so the question is, why were they using t...

Mission-afghanistan, categorically denies the assertion the command used an information operations cell to influence distinguished visitors and he says that essentially lieutenant colonel holmes as asked to gather information for visiting -- general caldwell about visiting dignitaries but it was the kind of prep work they do in the pentagon and elsewhere before speaking to visitors. martha: interesting. all right, thanks for that reporting, jennifer. we have not heard the last of both sides of t...

To actually work on influencing senators and other military officials visiting to help sort of grease the skids and get what they want. then what happens was the leader of the -- of this information operation cell said hey, that sounds illegal to me. and that was later confirmed with a legal opinion he received from a jag lawyer. so the question is why were they using this vital resource, this $6 million a year information operations cell, to try to spin senators? >> and what techniques do they ...

Chiefs of staff. hows that news being received in the pentagon today? >> i get a sense theyre talking about it in the pentagon. but this was an information operation segment specialized in psychological operations as well as military deception. and they originally were on a mission to -- what they were there to do was to actually train and influence afghans and the taliban. thats what they were supposed to do. but when they got there, general caldwell and his staff said, hey, no, we want you to ...