mazzetti, who is michael furlong? >> guest: michael furlong was an army officer, work and commanded a tape unit right before drafted before president nixon abolished the drove and overtime he became interested and not combat operations, but information operations and it basically means psychological warfare, propaganda, fighting inside the minds of the enemy. and he became quite good at it and worked in bosnia in the 90s doing psychological operations. post-9/11 he was hired as a contractor hired to civilian service in the air force and worked in the senior staff of donald rumsfeld and where i pick up his stories in the middle of the last decade, researcher for a contractor to go to tampa, florida to work for operations command. what they were doing at the time was looking to give contracts to companies that could do basically spread pro-american messages around the world in subtle ways and at the same time gather intelligence about various people in unconventional ways. so what furlong started to do was work with a n