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They are in close contact with people in the western part of the country. for instance, they're contacting tribal leaders, trying to 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 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 it's a very slippery slope when you have an information cell that has specialized in psychological operations, military deception, and you're applying them to work that should be done by public affairs. what you have is a melding -- you have this trad...

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. 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 w...

>> 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 live there now. you spoke to him tonight, right? >> that's right. lt. colonel michael holmes. i spoke...

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 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 would find it rather fishy if that had happened. >> can i add something to that, anderson >> go a...