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Rolling stone magazine reporting that the u.s. army, the legally ordered a team of soldiers to ma lip nate american senators for more troops and funding for the war in afghanistan. the orders reportedly came from lieutenant general william caldwell, a three-star general in charge of training afghan troops. according to "rolling stone" when they resisted the order, it was a campaign of retaliation. however, in the statement, a spokesman for caldwell denies allegations that the troops were used to quote influence distinguished visitors. eric bates of "rolling stone" will be on "morning joe" late...

He said i hope mitt by the way takes a shot at the army of doing to these guys today according to his father to him p it would show some loyal to the old man and his memory. thank you, eric bates. great. it's great on have you on. you know, eric, you've done it again. hell of a piece. i mean, your magazine is hot. thank you very much, eric bates and good piece. and john pike, thanks for helping us with the facts here. up next jon stewart versus don rumsfeld. i don't know if that's a fair fight.♪ tha s when all the condis are right for a good time ♪ [ male announcer ] advanced technology ...

Government and not manipulate it psychologically? i want to go back to eric bates on this again. i know it's a rhetorical question. i know the answer, they ought to know. >> they ought to know and i think that we're seeing something -- what's similar in the mcchrystal case. a disrespect of civilian command. are there very, very clear federal laws and military policies regarding this. the men themselves who are being ordered to do this were protesting and saying, look, this is not right, this is illegal, and still they continue to do it. i think it speaks how desperate they are to try and convi...

>> eric bates is editor of "rolling stone" and john pooiks a military analyst and director of globalsecurity.org. gentlemen, start with this -- eric bates. congratulations. i don't know if eligible for the pulitzer prize but you ought on win it with this, baby. this is manchurian candidate. the fact that we're using state-of-the-art srqák brainwashing to go after our own civilian people who are in charge of setting policies, amazing. don't they give these generals copies of the institution, eric? >> well, apparently not in this case. the general met him more than a dozen times with the leader...

this was not someone who was led along by law enforcement. and they say that this young man,ç khalid ali-m aldawsari, o is 20 years old, had come to the united states in 2008 with already the intention formed in his mind to carry out some kind of terror attack in the u.s. now, according to documents that were found in a search of his house, the fbi says, he had written a diary indicating that he started to think about jihad when he was still in high school in saudi arabia, and that he sought out scholarships so that he could come to the united states, study english, study chemical ...