reliance on foreign oil foreign policy steve levine will give us his input next rolling stones michael hastings is out of the get he released a new story about the u.s. military this time reporting that the army psychologically manipulated visiting politicians into providing more funding for the war efforts now as you can imagine the article is already having a lot of people up in arms but we can't help but wonder how many other people have also been victims of this practice we'll speak with lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer and journalists are finding it difficult to return to the u.s. after they've been traveling abroad they say that their elec tronic devices are take it and scanned before they can really enter the country but is this a blatant violation of the first or fourth amendments a.c.l.u. lawyer catherine crump away on the issue and we'll tell you how one hacker is taking on sony george hotz successfully hacked into sony's game system playstation three and i was asking for donations from the public to support its cause. but i want to know what exactly is his cause we'll ask that ques

think that he didn't take this interview i think that everybody in the military is afraid of michael hastings who wrote the mcchrystal article so that it's very hard for people to talk to him right now. which i think is why there's been so much insider and stuff here it's a lot of stuff that we've heard before in this particular article now you know well some of the things that i've found a little funny that was that it's very technical in the beginning and then it kind of goes into start praising this man if you've ever seen those commercials about the most interesting man in the world for the beer and here they almost are talking up a tray is that when they say he wants gave a signed autograph to a reporter he went jogging with you know in meetings the general mentions iraq in his success there every five minutes this is clearly somebody it's very self-confidence i guess you could say loves himself but clearly he also is a master of spin and we were just talking about the way that he works with the media and you know in this piece where they talk about how he lobbied before the nato summit

important thing this conflict has said it several times there's a great rolling stone article by michael hastings recently that lays it out very clearly that perception is the most important part of this conflict and not the perception of the afghan people but the perception of the american public jhumpa trace study this when he was up at princeton he was thesis on vietnam and american public perception of it so the important thing for our generals and for our ministration the u.s. is for the perception to be that the war is going well. ok so the strategy is working so that the president can look like he's winning the war which is important for the twenty two elections so the pentagon can look like they've won the war because they just came off the iraq war which by no measure can be counted as a clear they can get a clear w. in afghanistan if the public perceives it that way so perception is key but so they keep telling us right now that that we're seeing progress right that we're seeing some small semblance of success but where is the evidence to back that up i mean what does marshall look like