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The fact is, my concern when the president apologized so quickly, it gives the opinion to the afghans in the streets that the u.s. did this on purpose, thats why the president of the united states apologized. im like you and i agree with ralph. after 10 years would you have thought we were further along. but one of the problems in the 10 years our strategy, thats a failed strategy. thinking we can win hearts and mind against this culture, against this group of people at this time. so i think we ...

The internet as any other way. to put photos and have them on every hack al qaeda website is just going to irritate people and inflame them. it serves u.s. policy to purpose. i hope they keep those photos locked up. >> whats this going on with the porn stuff? i get the feeling, im as pot patriotic as anybody, im getting the chance that cia is doing psy-ops. the guy could have had some underling soldier passing time with porn videos. we dont know what kind of porn. why are they putting out that i...

I hope they keep those photos locked up. >> lets talk about what they have released. i get the feeling, and im as patriotic as anybody. i get a sense that the cia is doing some psy-ops here. -second have been some underling soldier passing time had some porn videos. why are they putting out that information except to humiliate the whole operation. i understand why, but isnt that what theyre doing? >> i think so, chris. theyre managing masterfully, letting out pieces of information to try to disc...

Answer to that, but the phrase is on a need to know basis. im not sure i ever need to know that. look, theyre guys, all right? theyre terrorists, but theyre still guys, is the bottom line. i do not think it has any operational relevancy to it. ty do believe his cable bill was huge because of the what pay-per-view he was ordering. >> some people would ask, is this psy-ops on our part? how much can we believe this happens? certainly it hurts their cause to have this out there. can we chalk it up t...

Visiting u.s. senators to afghanistan by a they-star general, general caldwell in afghanistan. well, one of the basis that michael hastings, to prove the point was a report you had a year ago in january on carl levine, senate arms services chairman where you were stunned by his reversal at the time on afghanistan policy. he was more optimistic than hed ever been and this was the trip, apparently that hastings reports where psy-ops takes place? >> it was pretty amazing. because i had been in a me...

They made. >> the central point of this is al qaeda and our efforts to interject al qaeda and obviously thats how we got into afghanistan, for example. there are varying opinions in the wake of the middle east unrest. al qaeda has dealt a severe propaganda blow because, look in the end the middle eastern governments it loathes for so long toppled not by armed conflict, but peaceful demonstrators. >> this was a quote from "the new york times" by former analyst paul pillar al qaeda and the terrori...

Mcchrystal memo on how bleak everything was. i asked him on the mood, how did your mood and impregz change when the only real difference between the bleak report mcchrystal did and the very rosy picture that you just gave was a de34r0iment of a very small number of forces. if weve achieved so much success with so little deployment why do we need the surge? it was just a very odd exchange. >> maybe it was psy-ops. >> who knew? steve clemens, good to have you as always, thank you. >> up next, the ...

Thats not psy-ops. >> the source was an on the record source, michael holmes. >> one source. >> on the record and hasting was asked about this on msnbc. >> i believe he finally went public with this was because right from the beginning he right from the beginning when he was ordered to do, it is a bad idea, it is a bad idea. >> rachel, if the on the record source is saying i didnt want to do this doesnt that give you some justification to publish? >> i have to clarify what you said at the beginn...

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...

Afghanistan, general david petraeus, is ordering an investigation joining appreciate both of you being with us. when people hear psy-ops, thats supposed to be directed toward the enemy. theres a quote in the article that said "what do i have to plant inside their heads? what kind of tactics are we talking about here when we talk about see ones that you say you were asked to use toward u.s. senators and others?" >> i think really more correctly what we would say is influence operations. and what ...