last year a rolling stone article ended the career of general stanley mcchrystal now rolling stone has done a profile on general david petraeus who's taken over command of the war in afghanistan now while petraeus himself declined to be interviewed the article aptly titled king david's war portrays a man who does whatever it takes to make things go his way that includes undermining the president working with and paying off corrupt warlords escalating violence despite the counterinsurgency strategy that he himself wrote the book on and perhaps most importantly being a master of spin in his nine hundred eighty seven doctoral dissertation at princeton betray us wrote the following what policymakers believed to have taken place in any particular case is what matters more than what actually occurred but nearly ten years into this war how long can that betray us keep manipulating the situation before the veil is finally lifted here to discuss it with me is robert farley a blogger at lawyers guns and money robert thanks so much for being here tonight thank you for having me now i want your op

reporter for "rolling stone," the same reporter whose award-winning profile of general stanley mcchrystal led to the four-star general's resignation has a new story out. in this one an american general is accused by one of his own officers of using military psychological tactics, known in the trade as psy-ops, on u.s. senators to get funding for the war. our pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski, has our report. >> reporter: the explosive charge in an article for "rolling stone" claims the u.s. army illegally ordered soldiers in psychological operations to manipulate american senators into providing more support for the afghanistan war. >> 4:59 a.m. >> lieutenant general william caldwell, in charge of training afghan troops, was seeking more money and american soldiers to to target lawmakers with a propaganda campaign filled with favorable news on the training and the war to win their votes. but using psychological operations against any americans is illegal under any circumstances. lieutenant colonel michael holmes of the army national guard told nbc news he refused to follow the orde

seem to reveal some little known information about people who are famous we learned that stanley mcchrystal is drink of choice is bud light light and insubordination we learned that president obama has some gangsta rap in his i pod playlist and now we're learning that justin bieber has no problem talking politics shocking right well in a recent interview with rolling stone he revealed all when it comes to music and girls but he also was hit with a few political questions now anybody who has a crush on this sixteen year old pop star knows that he's canadian even though his songs have won over the hearts of american teeny boppers everywhere so when justin was asked if he wanted to become an american citizen she showed his love for his homeland and its health care system he proclaimed that u.s. health care is evil now again let me repeat i am shocked that he's even passionate about any sort of political issue but then he went on to say canada is the best country in the world we go to the doctor and we don't need to worry about paying him but here your whole life you're broke because of medical

latest exposé coming from michael hastings the same reporter who last year and it general stanley mcchrystalcareer and he calls it another runaway general in regard to lieutenant general william caldwell who's in charge of training afghan troops but according to hastings called the offer ordered and informations operations unit to provide deep analysis of pressure points to secretly manipulate lawmakers without their knowledge and even worse to have this project take priority over all other duties now keep in mind using propaganda against american citizens is in violation of u.s. law and one man tenet colonel michael holmes spoke out and was then reprimanded by military investigators but if what hastings writes is true this exposes not only a disregard for the law but also puts into question our entire war effort and it especially makes me wonder if it's not only us senators who have been manipulated we're here to discuss with me is lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer a senior fellow at the center for advanced defense studies and is also still serving as a reserve lieutenant colonel anthony t

we had a video teleconference with general mcchrystal this morning.thers participated in that, and in that, he described, for example, the brigade going into the districts around kandahar, so they can do what president karzai wanted, as he announced, with the 500 or so local leaders there in discussing what is coming to kandahar province, which is that afghan forces leads wherever possible. >> what is with that? >> levin has for a long time made a big deal about the afghan security forces carrying a bigger load. he asked the question, how many of them are going to participate in this major operation in kandahar, and incredibly, petraeus says, "i do not know. i will get that to you." it demonstrates all kinds of incompetents to me. first of all, if this is a big deal, and levin is head, petraeus should know it, if he was properly prepared. he did not prepare for that. he did not tell us. levin did not say to petraeus' staff, "i need to know this." thirdly, after petraeus said, "i do not know," levin never again in that hearing that i know followed up.

that problem, with years as visit ministration has had, if you go back to bob woodward's book, mcchrystalas asking 40,000 soldiers as his real ask up to 2013, doubling the size of the afghan national security forces, i recall the meetings, this was greeted with horror because it was a severe case of sticker shock how much this will cost. now we just heard a couple days that the afghan national security forces are going to be doubled up to 400,000. we're going to be there, now past december 2014 even. so all the things he was military, they have been given more which is kind of i think ironic given the push back at the time. >> host: i'm not sure they have been given more. we are still only 30,000 troops. they're asking for a search of 40,000. >> guest: there was some 7000 from nato. >> host: it's in the ballpark. it's not exactly but it's close. >> guest: now they are talking about 2014. i just think, you know, the military kind of you of this and the administration's view is pretty closely aligned at this point turnpike i think that's right. what's also interesting is the extent to which

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next is re joining us from mcchrystal, ohio. -- ray joining us from licasville, ohio. caller: good morning. number one, i would call for the impeachment of obama. number two, i have many friends that our seniors and the senior citizens in this country on fixed incomes are being buried. nobody wants to talk about that. i watch people at the grocery store walking around, picking items up, and setting them back down because of the prices. this country is in the worst condition that i have ever seen it in the 70 years i have been living. there is no way out of this. and when the people of of this country, out of the nile -- when the people of this country come out of denial and realize that both parties have literally destroyed what we have -- we have nothing but grief in this country. nobody wants to face the fact -- we have nothing but greed in this country. nobody wants to face the facts of that. the senior citizens in this country, some of them are starving. some of them are not taking their medications. nobody wants to talk about that. host: thanks for your comments.

this story comes from the very same reporter whose article brought down general stanley mcchrystal last year. >>> this morning a british judge has ruled wikileaks founder julian assange can be extradited to sweden. his lawyers say he'll appeal the decision. >>> a major policy shift for president obama who's now calling the 1996 defense of marriage act unconstitutional. the justice department will no longer defend the federal legislation which bans recognition of same-sex marriages. meantime, hawaii has now become the seventh state to recognize same-sex civil unions. >>> now let's head to wall street where the crisis in libya is having an impact on international markets. melissa francis is at cnbc's world headquarters with the latest. how are the markets reacting here? >> could be a better day on wall street after we got slammed two days in a row. right now oil falling below the $100 market. it spiked up to $103 overnight. as it's declining, stocks rebounding. major indices in positive territory. we got new home sales data a short time ago. worse than expected, fell about 12.5%. the mark