"My job in psy-ops is to play with people's heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave," says LTC Michael Holmes, the leader of the Information Operations unit at Camp Eggers in Kabul, who received an official reprimand after bucking orders. "I'm prohibited from doing that to our own people. When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, you're crossing a line."
This Rolling Stone article alleges the Kabul IO unit was pressured to use its trickery on visiting senators and VIPs who met with LTG William Caldwell. |