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Senators named is me brainwashed? that's what they're saying. senator carl levin for example released a statement saying there would be no need for them to trial psy-ops him to get more funding for troops in afghanistan because he says he's always supported that. and al franken has said released a statement saying he always is skeptical of what he's told entirely on trips like this to afghanistan. he takes great pains to get information from a host of sources before he forms policy decisions. but they do all say at least the ones speaking out that it's appropriate for the pentagon to be invest...

William caldwell the head of training afghan security forces. this is the linchpin, tamron, of the war in iraq. this is how we get out of iraq, make sure afghan security forces are trained. last week the chairman of the joint chiefs was praising caldwell saying he's done a great job training many of these afghan çforces. and then finally, this "rolling stone" article quotes colonel michael holmes as its source, allegedly led this five-man psy-ops team, ordered to plan information in these people's heads. a number of people will be looking into his allegations, taking it very seriously. a num...

Communicators wanted to use psychological operations against iraqi americans in detroit of all places. >> wow. >> it was the public affairs people who were caught up in that, that blew the whistle, quite frankly, leaked the information to reporters like me to bring that to an abrupt halt. >> boy, all right. jim, thank you so much for the update. if you get anything else over the next hour or so, we'd love to come back and talk to you about it. >> you bet. we'll see how the psy-ops are. >> exactly. coming up, more with pat buchanan, norah o'donnell, donny deutsch, harold ford jr. and mike bar...

My job in psy-ops is to play with people's heads, get the enemy in a way we want them to behave. but he said this, quote, i'm prohibited from doing that to our own people. when you ask me to use those skills on senators and congressmen, you're crossing a line and the comparison has been made, jim, to the president using cia officers to spy on members of congress. it just seems like a clear line has been crossed here. i'm surprised that you don't have a quicker response from the pentagon. >> so am i. again, they knew this story was coming. it's not really clear exactly what kind of information ...

William called dwe caldwell gave orderss to persuae senators and even general mullen to pour more money into afghanistan. one was jack reed who talked to me last hour. >> i think first of all it has to be clearly, i think, evaluated as to what went on. what was the intent? were there any regulations violated? if there was there has to be suitable punishment. i didn't feel any -- anything unusual going on, and i think that a result simply of trying to cast a vast net, talked to lots of people, not just in kabul, but to go out on the ground. >> those regulations, senator r reed suggested say the...