Source: Courthouse News

WASHINGTON (CN) – The Army refuses to release information on its investigation into whether a three-star general conducted psychological operations on members of Congress during their visits to Afghanistan, according to the two Army information operations officers at the center of the controversy.

Michael Holmes, the officer who says he refused orders to conduct Psy-Ops on American officials, and Laurel Levine filed a federal FOIA complaint, saying the Army and the U.S. Army Central Command refused to release the records.

Holmes and Levine says the Army investigation “also covered allegations of whistleblower retaliation conducted against the plaintiffs for challenging unlawful orders.”

“Rolling Stone” magazine published an article in February this year “alleging that the U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in ‘psychological operations’ to ‘manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war … and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators,’” according to the complaint.

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