blower collected the data brought it up to the general who was in charge a guy named general william caldwell and general caldwell told them he didn't think they should investigate it and then the reason they gave was because they didn't want the bad news coming out of the command especially before an election in two thousand and ten election and tried to prevent them from actually investigating now thankfully due to the persistence of these whistleblowers they went around caldwell brought in the specter general themselves and that's how this investigation got sort of but that was two years ago and only now are we are we finally getting even the full story but so in that sense. you know how big do you think that a scandal like this would you say that this is i mean this is supposed to be our allies right afghanistan of refining of war there and yet we're training we're funding we're assisting these afghan security forces and they're the ones that are being treated like that and this hospital would think that there would be a lot more outrage i don't know if you would want to compare it to you

reasons according to testimony before congress by colonel mark fossil he said that this general william caldwell told him that to call off the investigation in two thousand and ten because how could we do this or make this request with an election coming he calls me bill referring to president obama well the i want to throw in a new concept where everyone is familiar with this idea of too big to fail the banks are systemically welded into the system they can break any law they want but you can't go after him because if you dismantle them the whole system collapses and of course they use that to their advantage to steal ever greater sums of money and to get the government to impose austerity measures into a new concept is called too big to win. it applies to the u.s. military here you have defense contractors who are welded into america's military who are anti-competitive who are leeching the comb the country dry with these multi-billion dollar go nowhere projects to restore and rebuild countries that are not even on the map but ultimately know when is possible if you spend ten trillion dollars t

generales who oversaw afghan training, lieutenant general william caldwell and his deputy brigadier generalary patton in 2010 delayed bringing in pentagon investigators because of their political concerns over the looming mid term u.s. elections. geller says caldwell was angry. his staff wanted an investigation. but patton was afraid it would embarrass the obama white house. >> he said, we don't want it put that request this right new because there is an upcoming general election. and we wouldn't want this to leak out. >> that's just not acceptable. >> congressman jason oversight sub committee is investigating the general's alleged behavior. >> that's a very serious allegation. but it didn't come from just one high ranking military official on the ground. not just two. we have several who stepped forward and said yb yes, this is the case. >> geller says he want the truth to come out. >> the biggest frustration is our own leaderships' response and how slow that was and how inadequate that was. >> both caldwell and patton declined to comment. but the pentagon is looking into geller's allegati

generals who oversaw afghan training, lieutenant general william caldwell and his deputy gary patton bringing in pentagon investigators because of their political concerns over the looming midterm u.s. elections. geller says caldwell was angry his staff wanted the inspector general to investigate and that patton ordered a delay out of concern it would embarrass the obama white house. >> and then he said, but we don't want to do -- we don't want to put that request in right now because there's an upcoming general election. and we wouldn't want this to leak out. >> that's just not acceptable. >> reporter: congressman jason house oversight subcommittee is inre inrest. >> did didn't just come from one, or two, we've had several who stepped forward and said, yes, this is indeed the case. >> reporter: geller says he wants the truth to come out. >> the biggest frustration is our own leadership's response and how slow that was and how inadequate that was. >> want to bring in our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. just the first image in your piece, that man looked skeletalal. this hearing

during the hearing, there was testimony from a colonel who alleged that lieutenant general william caldwell three-star general in charge of the mission in afghanistan, had officials delay request for an investigation into abuse at the kabul hospital so allegations would not surface before the 2010 elections. caldwell spokesman says the allegations are false. that has been 355 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? even more positive news on housing tonight. two new reports show home prices are rising, with real estate website zillow declaring home prices have bottomed out. as we have been saying, a key part of the economic recovery is a housing recovery. and this is just another sign that things are getting better. >>> now let's send it back to err rain who is live tonight along the border of mali. >> and now, our fourth story "outfront." tuareg fighters in this camp tonight. and as you can see behind me, some of these stick tents, during the day, a lot of the tuareg rebels will literally get together in groups and hang around here, drinking tea, a

generals who oversaw afghan training, lieutenant general william caldwell and his deputy brigadier generaln in 2010 delayed bringing in pentagon investigators because of their political concerns over the looming mid-term u.s. elections. geller says caldwell was angry. his staff wanted the inspector general to investigate and that patton ordered a delay out of concern it would embarrass the obama white house. >> and hen he said but we don't want to put that request in right now because there's an upcoming general election, and we wouldn't want this to leak out. >> that's just not acceptable. >> congressman jason chaffetz's oversight committee is investigating the allegations. >> it didn't just come from one high-ranking military official on the ground or two. we have several of them who have stepped forward that said, yes, indeed this is the case. >> reporter: geller says he wants the truth to come out. >> the biggest frustration is our own leadership's response and how slow that was and how inadequate that was. >> barbara starr joins me live now. barbara, i'm not sure which is worse, the u

. >> reporter: the men alleged their boss, lieutenant general william caldwell, delayed an investigationd politically. >> his first response to me was, how could we do this or make this request with elections coming. and then he made the really, again, shocking comment that he calls me bill. >> but what does that mean? >> well, i took it as that he was referring to the president of the united states. >> and then he had a personal relationship. >> i don't know, chairman, if he had a personal relationship. but the political pressure there was such that he made those statements. >> reporter: you see colonel vessel there in a u.s. army uniform. this is a colonel in the army saying that a three-star general used the president's name to get out of having an immediate investigation of the situation at this hospital. general caldwell has not publicly commented on this through his spokesman he is saying he believes the through his spokesman, he says he believes the allegations are false. >> a real scandal that's brewing, thanks, barbara, for that. >>> coming up at the top of the hour, details of

generals who oversaw afghan trainings, lieutenant william caldwell and his deputy, jerry patton, in 2010 delayed bringing in pentagon investigators because of their political concerns over the looming midterm u.s. elections. geller says caldwell was angry his staff wanted the inspector general to investigate and that patton ordered a delay out of concern it would embarrass the obama white house. >> and then he said, but we don't want to put that request in right now because there's an upcoming general election. and we wouldn't want this to leak out. >> that's just not acceptable. >> reporter: congressman jason chaffetz house oversight subcommittee is investigating the general's alleged behavior. >> it's a very serious allegation. but it didn't just come from one high ranking military official on the ground, didn't come from just two, we have several of them who have stepped forward and said, yes, this was indeed the case. >> reporter: geller says he wants the truth to come out. >> the biggest frustration is our own leadership's response and how slow that was and how inadequate that was.