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This article makes it sound like the program is ongoing, but I am not sure how to reconcile this with stories like this, which claim that the program has been c

This article makes it sound like the program is ongoing, but I am not sure how to reconcile this with stories like this, which claim that the program has been cancelled: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-ends-covert-cia-program-to-arm-anti-assad-rebels-in-syria-a-move-sought-by-moscow/2017/07/19/b6821a62-6beb-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html?utm_term=.6759fb36cb24 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump... Does anyone have insight here?

wu-ikkyu 9y ago
See Iran Contra. Congress made it illegal to use tax payer $ to fund Nicaraguan terrorists, so the MIC created a clandestine workaround. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair
PeachPlum 9y ago
The WaPo is not an independent reporting body, its parent group Amazon, has juicy contracts from the CIA, you can trust nothing it prints.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  Amazon is not WaPo’s parent; Bezos owns it independently of Amazon.
  - jaxytee 9y ago
    Still a conflict of interest.
    - knowaveragejoe 9y ago
      If you're a conspiracy theorist, sure. Why would WaPo write negatively about the CIA if that were the case?
      - anotherbrownguy 9y ago
        >Why would WaPo write negatively about the CIA if that were the case? To distract from something else or to downplay their ill deeds or to explain what they did in completely different context so that the real intent can be hidden.
evunveot 9y ago
This is about what the Pentagon/military is doing. The CIA had its own operation. "Reporters have pieced together the Pentagon’s complex supply line to Syria using procurement records, ship-tracking data, official reports, leaked emails, and interviews with insiders. This program is separate from a now-defunct CIA effort to arm rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad."

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This article makes it sound like the program is ongoing, but I am not sure how to reconcile this with stories like this, which claim that the program has been c

by hLHEDuYtSh 9y ago

wu-ikkyu 9y ago
See Iran Contra. Congress made it illegal to use tax payer $ to fund Nicaraguan terrorists, so the MIC created a clandestine workaround. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair
PeachPlum 9y ago
The WaPo is not an independent reporting body, its parent group Amazon, has juicy contracts from the CIA, you can trust nothing it prints.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  Amazon is not WaPo’s parent; Bezos owns it independently of Amazon.
  - jaxytee 9y ago
    Still a conflict of interest.
    - knowaveragejoe 9y ago
      If you're a conspiracy theorist, sure. Why would WaPo write negatively about the CIA if that were the case?
      - anotherbrownguy 9y ago
        >Why would WaPo write negatively about the CIA if that were the case? To distract from something else or to downplay their ill deeds or to explain what they did in completely different context so that the real intent can be hidden.
evunveot 9y ago
This is about what the Pentagon/military is doing. The CIA had its own operation. "Reporters have pieced together the Pentagon’s complex supply line to Syria using procurement records, ship-tracking data, official reports, leaked emails, and interviews with insiders. This program is separate from a now-defunct CIA effort to arm rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad."