taxpayer money to wage a propaganda war? i would find it rather fishy if that had happened. can i add something to that, anderson go ahead. there s actually a credibility issue, as well. when you re dealing as a reporter with the public affairs officer or public affairs professional in the military, you know that that person is trained to tell you the truth and they have an ethical code they can t break. what they re telling you they believe to be so. my team, my specialty, information operations and the psychological arm of things, we are trained to deceive if we have to. we aren t held to the same ethical standards. so it s not a question that we would have or we could have told you a lie. it s simply that if i come to you as an information operator and i m talking to you giving you the story as a reporter, you really you really don t have