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From: DMaA	2/25/2011 10:11:03 AM
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Just bizarre - psy-ops target senators local news playing this up big here: Al Franken reportedly targeted by U.S. Army psy-ops to boost funding blogs.citypages.com A U.S. Army officer appears to have mistaken U.S. lawmakers for the real enemy in Afghanistan. Sen. Al Franken was among a group of Senate and House members who were reportedly the targets of a U.S. Army psychological operations order, in an effort to get them to vote for more money and troops. Without addressing the specific allegations, which appear on the Rolling Stone website, Franken said in a statement this afternoon that his votes on war were not made as the result of a nefarious plot. (Full statement below.) "I participated in a CODEL and made a visit to Kabul in January 2010, during which time Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, Commander, NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan, and several others briefed me on the progress being made in the country," Franken said. "While the briefings provided me with a helpful update on what was happening on the ground, I knew that I would have to crosscheck their assessment."

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