samples from hamid karzai to prove that the afghan president is a heroin addict and claridge apparently believes that karzai is will ultimately sell out the u.s. to the iranians to the pakistanis so his private spy ring wants to interfere now they also when the military won't listen past their dispatches on to certain media figures so what we make of these private operations interfering in war zones is a new practice that we're going to start seeing more of joining me to discuss it is marcy wheeler blogger for firedoglake marci thank you so much for joining us now first of all let's talk about do we this character he's seventy eight years old i believe but what intentions do you think that he has because on one hand he sells it like he's trying to root out corruption in afghanistan and he's doing this for america's own good so that we don't get sold out but he's doing this despite what the military or the president necessarily want him to do and he believes that american intervention is always ok whenever we feel like it he's a war hawk. i mean i wouldn't have as big of a problem with p