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

now according to rolling stone a general in the u.s. army illegally ordered a team of soldiers who specialized in psychological operations to manipulate visiting american politicians and providing more funding and troops for the war in afghanistan is the latest exposé coming from michael hastings the same reporter who last year and it general stanley mcchrystal career 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 qu

a 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

. >>> "rolling stone" magazine is reporting that the u.s. army illegally sought to manipulate members of the u.s. senate forbidden from doing that to americans and when you ask me to use these skills on senators and congressmen, you're crossing the line. "rolling stone" says the list of targets included senators john mccain, joel lieberman, al franken and others. >>> gay rights groups are celebrating a decision by the obama administration to stop enforcing a federal law banning raek mission of same-sex marriage. the justice department made the announcement on wednesday. the white house confirmed it but mr. obama is still, quote, grappling with his personal views on same-sex marriage. >>> in hawaii, governor neil abercrombie signed a bill legalizing same-sex civil unions. the new law doesn't establish same-sex marriage in hawaii. but it does give gay and lesbian couples the same state rights as married partners. >>> the u.s. state department is praising mexico for arresting six suspects in last week's deadly attack on two u.s. immigration off

now rolling stone interviews always 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

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i am an independent writer and producer of television, going back to "rolling stone." my question will relate to the comment about quality from dr. abraham. specifically about journalists today. 250 people, ranging in age between 25 and 35, pretty frightening. they were new media folks from a content perspective. what i came away with listening to them talk about their audience, reaching out, being writers, was scared me was how selfish the audience seemed to be. subway breakfasts, your comment about crime and people being tired of reading about it, they were reaching for people like this, this is how t

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i am an independent writer and producer of television, going back to "rolling stone." my question will relate to the comment about quality from dr. abraham. specifically about journalists today. 250 people, ranging in age between 25 and 35, pretty frightening. they were new media folks from a content perspective. what i came away with listening to them talk about their audience, reaching out, being writers, was scared me was how selfish the audience seemed to be. subway breakfasts, your comment about crime and people being tired of reading about it, they were reaching for people like this, this is how they were going to make money. it scares the hell out of me. i brought it back and brought it up, especially in the '60s and '70s, it was a extremely political newspaper magazine that used music to bring in an audience. so, my question, what about the new journalists today reaching out to the 20-year-old and 30- year-old? your comment about the two schools of journalism and reaching out, getting quality journalism to the public, how will we do that? >> we have a couple of

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. >> i want to get your reaction to something that came out in "rolling stone" magazine this week. here was a birkett of ypicture afghanistan with general. it u.s. illegally ordered a team of soldiers to manipulate visiting american senators into providing more troops and funding for the war. "rolling stone" has learned when an officer tried to stop the operation he was railroaded by military investigators. as you know, general petraeus is now investigating this. what happened? >> well you know, that's been tried on me in the past, david. i don't know what happened. i do know that the general caldwell is a great leader and has done a great job in leading the afghan army. i also know that these briefers are briefed. senator x is interested in the following, a, b, c, d and e. and that i think is perfectly legitimate. if it went any further than that, i don't know. general petraeus will make a, a full investigation. general caldwell has steadfastly denied it. but i don't see how it could have affected my positions. in any way. and so we'll see what happens. but i'm, put me down as ske

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has denied accusations that an army unit psychologically manipulative top visiting officials a rolling stone magazine a published claims that these psychological operations known as psyops are used to get more money and troops for the war are these military contributors says that the revelations expose the massive propaganda campaign used by the us army. avoid any confusion i have to make it crystal clear that all those terms regarding this psychological operations information operations law being and spinning in the contest of the general betray us profile we actually imply and mean the same thing that is exactly what general betray us try to present the phrase the aged the paper regarding the main lesson learned from his experience in vietnam conflict that is what i have been sown to ground is irrelevant what really does matter will do you as decision makers and american public thinks about what's going on overseas regarding their military affairs the bottom line is the whole american operation enduring freedom has nothing to do with the military conflict neither thank you stan i've been t

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