they didn't do anything wrong. no law was broken. they are using background information. you are the first woman war correspondent in vietnam. i have one out there and the military have press conferences and try to get their message to the media. is this any different? >> particularly in vietnam where things were always going wrong as far as public opinion went there was a concerted effort to do that. the colonel's point here is that the general was break the law because psycholodgal operations is only supposed to be directed against the enemy, not against american citizens. my favorite media item of the week on this subject was in the huffington post by a former senator andrews from maine who says, he actually said it was an attempt at a military coo. he is a lefty of course, i suppose i don't have to tell you that. i think this thing hangs in the balance either there is a lot of back and forth we haven't