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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 and more troops for the war. and it sounded as though my first reaction was oh, isn't that what they ...

Afghanistan was encouraging to go on facebook and twitter, basically making no distinction between foreign audiences and domestic audiences. that's why with colonel holmes' story, i think we sort of see a -- it's 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. isha joins was that and more ahead.

Show you some sort of a village, as reporters you find yourself in these dog and pony shows and think wait a minute, this isn't real. what is different about this? >> it's certainly part of the same larger picture. but the issue is the resource or the weapon the military is employing to do that. when we're out there, we're 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 star...

Convince them that this is a sinking regime, and there's no point in going down with it. they've even been in contact with gadhafi's 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 the west that have successfully driven out gadhafi's forces. so the outside world may be sitting ...