ordered to really butter up and manipulate visiting persons such as senator john mccain from the senate appropriations committee, such as diplomats that might be coming in, jack reed, al franken, karl levin, joe lieberman. very prominent people in the military business and the idea was to collect information on them and find pressure points or as the chief of staff or the general reportedly told colonel holmes, get inside their head, find the pressure points. and the idea was to get more money and more troops for the war. and it sounded as though my first reaction was oh, isn t that what they always do? eric: and in the article in the reports about this general caldwell, his spokesman said