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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 traditional branch ....
Supposed to target americans, says one veteran of the psy-ops team.รง it s what you learn on day one. joining me now in his first television interview since his article became public, michael hastings of rolling stone. thanks for joining us tonight, michael. thanks for having me, lawrence. it s an honor to be here. michael, they didn t limit their targets to members of congress, according to your reporting. they actually targeted psychological operations on admiral mike mullen of the joint chiefs of staff. how s that news being received in the pentagon today? i get a sense they re 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. that s what they were supposed to do. but when they got there, general caldwell and his staff said, hey, no, we want y ....
everyone in the psy-ops community knows you re not supposed to target americans, says one veteran of the psy-ops team. it s what you learn on day one. joining me now in his first television interview since his article became public, michael hastings of rolling stone. thanks for joining us tonight, michael. thanks for having me, lawrence. it s an honor to be here. michael, they didn t limit their targets to members of congress, according to your reporting. they actually targeted psychological operations on admiral mike mullen of the joint chiefs of staff. how s that news being received in the pentagon today? i get a sense they re 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. that s what they were supposed to do. ....
Chiefs of staff. how s that news being received in the pentagon today? i get a sense they re 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. that s what they were supposed to do. 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 jag lawyer. so the question is why were they using this vital resource, this $6 million a year information ....