u. s. military. the pro follows mounting concern in the white house over the defense department's manipulations of foreign audiences. last week, the u. s. under secretary of defense, instruct to those responsible for conducting military psychological operations on line to provide a full account of the activities met to shut down more than $150.00 fake u. s. accounts in august for spreading pro western propaganda in middle eastern and central asian countries. with some promoting unseat russian narratives. let's cross live now to former pentagon officials, michael muller. michael, thanks very much for joining us here on archie today. i'm now given the contest i nature of the pentagon itself, do we think we can expect a completely independence on chance barn investigation? i think they're going to try and deep 6, a better these. these kinds of things are often times used are approved through other channels that are not going to be ever be revealed. ca is, are always done it. i know the defense department is also done this in the past, but it's under very carefully orchestrated things and everything is so compartment that one hand may not know what the oth