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Report: CIA ‘Feeding Intelligence’ to Syrian Rebel Fighters

Mar. 23, 2013 9:55am Madeleine Morgenstern

Rebels take position inside a building at Saif al-Dawla district in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on March 23, 2013. (Getty Images)

The CIA is “feeding intelligence” to certain Syrian rebel fighters to use against President Bashar Assad’s regime, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The agency is aiding only secular rebel forces to try and counter the rise of Islamic extremists now overtaking parts of rebel-held Syria:

Syrian opposition commanders said the CIA has been working with British, French and Jordanian intelligence services to train rebels on the use of various kinds of weapons. A senior Western official said the intelligence agencies are providing the rebels with urban combat training as well as teaching them how to properly use antitank weapons against Syrian bunkers.

The agencies are also teaching counterintelligence tactics to help prevent pro-Assad agents from infiltrating the opposition, the official said.

At the same time, the U.S. is sharing only “limited” information because the CIA doesn’t know whether it can fully trust the rebels, including withholding where American and Israeli intelligence believe the Syrian government keeps its chemical weapons, according to the Journal.

The CIA’s actions don’t change the U.S.’s decision not to directly intervene militarily:

President Barack Obama last year rejected a CIA-backed proposal to provide arms to secular units fighting Mr. Assad, and on Friday he reiterated his argument that doing so could worsen the bloodshed.

He also warned that Mr. Assad’s fall could empower extremists. “I am very concerned about Syria becoming an enclave for extremism because extremists thrive in chaos, they thrive in failed states, they thrive in power vacuums,” Mr. Obama said at a news conference in Amman, Jordan.

The United Nations announced this week that it will investigate claims that chemical weapons were deployed in Syria, allegations Obama said would be a “game changer” if true.

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RaydocX
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 6:31pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9950036/Syria-chemical-weapons-finger-pointed-at-jihadists.html

so in the litany of ‘choosing the wrong side’ which this administration has managed to do far more often than stepping correctly, we are now providing intel to the very people willing to use chemical weapons against their enemies… people who when the dust settles will not remember our aid or thank us, but will turn upon us and our allies and behave in the same manner.

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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 6:59pm
  RaydocX
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 6:31pm
  so in the litany of ‘choosing the wrong side’ which this administration has managed to do far
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  It isn’t just “this administration” though:
  
  CBS News (August 7, 2012): Senator Joe Lieberman on Syria: “I’d give the rebels weapons”
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 8:26pm
  The west has chosen the wrong side, Raydocx. I’m wondering if they haven’t realised that but feel they can’t back out now without looking foolish.
  
  The mainstream media has been hiding the FSA atrocities so far, but evidence is piling up on blogs and on Youtube. It can’t be hidden forever.
  
  NATO and, particularly the Obama administration, have been actively involved from the beginning. There is anecdotal evidence that the CIA, and NATO intelligence, controlled and supported the snipers that began the attack inside Syria. There is clear evidence that the “mission” at Benghazi was involved in recruiting foreign “jihadis” without which there would be no rebellion.
  
  The world’s worst thugs and murderers have been arriving in Syria from all over Europe and the Middle-East, and the results are predictable. They indescriminately shoot and behead innocent Syrians. Rape is pandemic and robbery is commonplace. And all this is supported largely by the Obama administration’s largesse.
  
  http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3634/european-jihadists
  
  http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/when-america-switched-sides-in-terror-war/
  
  Is it any wonder that the “rebels” can’t make progress because of determined support of the Syrian people for their government? The citizens know full well the horror that awaits them if the insurgents are successful.
  
  The insanity is that the FSA, while receiving money and materiel from the US, burns the American flag.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 9:12pm
  @ Kid
  
  Thanks for posting that. It demonstrates the simplistic view that our betters have of the situation.
  
  It is true that Syria has staunchly supported Iran and is no friend of Israel. The west could and should use the current position to extract an agreement from Assad to change his stance in both areas. I have no doubt that he would be very willing to listen to such a proposal.
  
  Unfortunately, Saudi Arabia and Qatar want control of Syria for quite different reasons and they continue to push the west towards war, proffering stable oil prices and supplies as an added incentive. And, make no mistake, the spectre of war is exactly what we are looking at.
  
  http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/russia-protecting-mediterranean-interests/
  
  Having spent a relatively small amount of time digging into this, I wonder why supposedly well informed politicians believe that their false narrative will succeed. Did they learn nothing from the “mulsim video” debacle? Do they enjoy looking foolish?
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 12:43am
  For the fools, let met state the reality. Israel is not America. It should not enter the discussion as to what is best for America.
  
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- plhutch
  Posted on March 25, 2013 at 6:06pm
  Jerk…explain to me how a nation the size of Jersey was kicked out of their land twice, the second for nearly 2000 yrs., multitudes of dictators and nations trying to completely exterminate them, scattered all over the planet, endures relentless persecution, yet some how they are preserved through it, their original language is still intact, their original lineage from 4000 yrs. ago still intact (which starts with Abraham), they are a race and a religion, and restablished as a nation in 1948, reclaiming Jerusalem in 1967 in only a six day war? Can you name me any other nation in human history who has done that? Jerusalem is now and will be in the future, the center of the universe. Jews are still blind to this yet and will get kicked out one more time, with the remnant to come back after WWIII, (Armageddon) with their King (who will not come in a manger this time) leading the charge. There will be no world peace until their is peace in Jerusalem. And this same King wants to have peace with you right now. To know God and his Son is to possess eternal life (John 17:3). He came once in humility to offer you a new life and hope (Col. 3:4). And to top that off, its free. Its also a free choice. You cannot deny the fact that for Isreal to even exist today is a miracle in itself. And God wants to perform a miracle in your heart by giving to you his righteousness (Rom. 5:17, Eph. 4:24).God is about done with the gentile nations (including America). His kingdom is most important.
  
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MACaTAC
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 5:11pm
Obama supports the Muslim brotherhood.

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STREBOR
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:50pm
Syrian Spring…………..more like a Syrian Sweltering Endless Summer………

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KidCharlemagne
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:41pm
“Rudyard Kipling’s famous 19th century novel Kim is set against the background of the Great Game, the fight for supremacy over Central Asia between the British and Russian Empires. The book’s hero captures the essence of the struggle with a simple, chilling phrase, “The Great Game is not over until everyone is dead. Not before”. Scroll forward 150 years and the Great Game is alive and well and preying on the people of Syria.”
Syria: Tragic Epicentre of the New Great Game

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Chromo200
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:13pm
Most people that follow news on this site know that we will be getting screw’d once Assad is gone. And we will not be surprised ..it is the low information voter .. the Obama Zombies.. think Obama is doing a great job trying to bring peace to the region and will want to send troops to save people from slaughter. Peace will never come to that area, even if Israel no longer exists. 1. I bet you that Israel if they believe that they are loosing, they will nuke that whole area and turn it into on glass radioactive site and 2. The remaining arabs will keep fighting each other .. Look at Irag .. Sunni bombing Shiites and Shiites bombing Sunnis.

America needs to like Switzerland, mind its own business and be energy independent from foreign oil. oops I sound like a Paulanista, which I am not but made more studying and reading and will be one.

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jcizarter
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:52pm
Dear Glenn,
I heard you say on your program (on Dish) yesterday that 1/2 of US citizens side with Bronco Insane Blama. I wonder about that. We had an election for President back in Nov. 2012, here are the statistics.
There are 207,643,594 eligible voters in the U.S. The census bureau estimates as of July have the US total population at 303,824,640. As of the 2006 general election the Voting Age Population (all adults) was 225,964,346 whereas the Voter Eligible Population (adults – ineligible people like felons or non-citizens) was 207,643,594. Now out of that number of eligible voters how many voted for B.O?
Out of that number how many voted for Mittens? Now about 125,000,000 voted in the presidential election of 2012. Where were the other voters? They may or may not be for BO, but if they were, I would say that they would have been bussed or paid to vote many times, but they chose not to vote. So a little over 65,000,000 voted for BO. That is not half of the population of this country by any stretch of the imagination. Those who voted for this Lim Brohood lover are even sick that they voted for him. He does not have 1/2 of the voting populations backing at all.

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ares338
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:01pm
At the same time, the U.S. is sharing only “limited” information because the CIA doesn’t know whether it can fully trust the rebels, including withholding where American and Israeli intelligence believe the Syrian government keeps its chemical weapons, according to the Journal.

REALLY?

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- jcldwl
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:29pm
  I like how they say they are only helping secular rebels. Really? In the middle east? Secular. What a joke they are aiding Muslim Brotherhood terrorists.
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:36pm
  That means full access in Gov talk.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 3:29pm
  Someday we will be fighting the “rebels”.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:56pm
Congress may limit the power of the President to render aid that establishes the religion of Islam, and God can help speed that process? May the Holy Ghost haunt you all?

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:53pm
The CIA might not be able to say, but we can say it, President Obama, every dime sent to an Islamic Country, supports the religion of Islam, no other President in history has been informed by the Angels of God, that you are violating the civil rights of Americans through this support of Islam, against the Bill of Rights that promises their citizens, they will not establish a religion?

May God speed you out of your position of power, and all who believe like you do? American citizens do not have to limit their information, they just have to act on it?

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servant100
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:50pm
Gee…ya think?!!! Bengazi….Scott Brown, the Ambassador was a CIA black op expert who was expressly there to spearhead a CIA operation in which we (the USA) were covertly looting the huge Lybian Kadaffi arms caches that were just sitting there….and through the auspices of the Turkish Ambassador….running these looted weapons through Turkey to arm the Al Quieda backed Syrian Rebels…. Same stuff they are overtely doing now.

Brown and that embassy was sacrificed to uphold Obama’s reelection bid. pure and simple…

Make no mistake…there is absolutely nothing that heartless bastard in the presidency will not do to support Islamic radicals…all the while he is posturing and playing us behind the smokescreen of constant deception…

Syria and all the Islamic nations are a black hole…there is absolutely no winning strategy with these deceptive islamic morons….nationbuilding is fruitless when the islamic “culture” is an 8th century oxymoron.

America MUST focus upon Energy Independence…build up our own refining capacity…and use ONLY our own oil and gas.. Leave the Middle East to fools and other environmental Ghia kissing radicals….

Israel is our only real Ally…all else will be Islamic within 5 years just because of simple demographics…

We reap what we sow..

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:05pm
Bankers finance both sides. Muslim Brotherhood technocrats; financed with oil money; Qatar; Saudi; Iran; end goal world currency. To get there it will be Sunni (West) vs Shiite (Russia & China). Prophecy says that the 20% Shiite will overtake the 80% Sunni. It’s all a global power struggle. In a stroke of a few computer keys the digital monetary system can crash. Listen to: Financial Insider V & Steve Quayle Economic Update:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cfp-radio/2013/03/23/the-hagmann-hagmann-report

Can also get there from: http://www.homelandsecurityus.com

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:30pm
  You are correct. Think about the Iraq war. There was no physical threat from Iraq or Saddam, yet we attacked him. He did not posses the means to attack America, yet we attacked him. Why? Why?
  
  Our soldiers are no longer dying to protect America. They are being sacrificed to protect Israel and corporations. That’s why we stay. That’s why we nation build. We are asleep at the wheel.
- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:38pm
  It should also be mentioned that we supplied intelligence to the belligerent Israeli’s when they unilaterally bombed both Iraq and Syria under the anything goes excuse of “preemption.”
  
  It should also be mentioned that the removal of Saddam from Iraq and the destabilizing of Syria were both part of the Israeli strategy written by American Zionists back in 1996. They wrote their study, ” A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” then went on to hold prominent policy positions in the Bush administration.
  
  We have been following that plan to the letter. What a coincidence… to fools.
- barber2
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:37pm
  JERK: Guess you are one of the radical ” anti-capitalists” which is the thread that is uniting all of our world wide revolutionaries…for now. The deluge to follow which that goal is reached.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 5:55pm
  Barber2, you had better read Ayn Rand again. You’re missing something. I’m a pure capitalist. You’re confusing crony capitalism with pure capitalism.
  
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Secret Squirrel
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:45am
“counter the rise of Islamic extremists”
The rebels ARE islamic extremists.

It’s funny, Obama is telling the Syrian rebels to arm themselves against a tyrannical governmet,
while telling Americans that owning weapons is a bad thing.

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:12pm
  Sunni’s fighting the Shia. Both jumped for joy when the WTC fell. The weapons that were not used in Libya(brought to them by Barry and his cabal) (code word BENGAZI) are being shipped to Syria. Let em kill each other.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:24pm
  This can’t end well . .. if it ever does … anyone wonder where those WMD’s in Iraq went ???
  
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STREBOR
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:26am
It’s has all the logic of attempting to reason with a rattlesnake……….absurdly impossible.

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Stoic one
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:21am
“I am very concerned about Syria becoming an enclave for extremism because extremists thrive in chaos, they thrive in failed states, they thrive in power vacuums,”

Perhaps you should have thought about this before Libya, Tunisia, & Egypt.

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- DEDDROBB
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:57am
  Yeah he also had Jimmy Carter’s crackpot stances on Afghanistan and Iran to look back on. They didn’t bode well for us and neither will this new round of extremist run countries that he helped create.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:11am
does it seem counter-intuitive to anyone else to claim we are trying to ‘counter the rise of islamic extremists by providing intel to those very islamic extremists?

sadly i suspect the administration actually believes what is being claimed, having not learned their lesson in Egypt.

keep our troops out… do what we can to rescue the women and children with the aid of Turkey, but let these zealots and radicals destroy each other and grow weary of bloodshed and death, so they are less likely to bring it to our shores or visit it upon our enemies… with ‘intel’ and equipment we provide, nonetheless.

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soybomb315_II
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:53am
syrian rebels aka Al Qaeda

For goodness sakes it is happening again….

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- dissentnow
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:24am
  You are correct.
  Sadly, the next controlled demolition will be our sovereignty.
  
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- RaydocX
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:24am
  i find myself in complete agreement with your assessment.
  
  and word is Jordan is the next in the line of dominoes…
  they weren’t wrong in the theory prompting intervention in Vietnam, just wrong about when and what religious or political force would proceed in that way.
  
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AUsername
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:38am
That money should be going to Americans who are struggling but no, most of the people in Washington are traitors. I wonder to which country, bank or corporation this action is benefiting.

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:48pm
  “That Money” should stay in the pockets of those who earned it.
  
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:34am
” extremists thrive in chaos” a radical in state of extreme and confusion and wow, do we know about that in our own land.

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Eastinfection
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:24am
“Feeding Intelligence” to the rebels….

Definitely disproves the axiom “you are what you eat”.

… unless we are really feeding them little balls of BS.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:57am
  LoL!
  
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- IOWAGIR
  Posted on March 25, 2013 at 6:46am
  Holy Sh^t Balls Batman!! LOL
  
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dissentnow
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:18am
The Syrian rebels are al-Qaeda. Our government is using al-Qaeda to effect policy change. Both the democrats and the republicans support the rebels. Remember, Romney spoke of arming them.
This is all part of the UN controlled demolition of American sovereignty.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:10am
The agency is aiding only secular rebel forces to try and counter the rise of Islamic extremists now overtaking parts of rebel-held Syria:

Yeah they claim they’re helping only secular rebel forces but I don’t think they know who they’re helping.

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- barber2
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:18am
  PRO: Agree. Am sure this is what was going on in Benghazi but probably there were weapons also involved since the CIA is part of the Executive Branch ….not that we’ll ever know with the MSM in the radical Democrats’ back pocket. Can you imagine what the MSM would be doing if this were going on during the Bush Administration ?!
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:29pm
  Yes they’d have impeached him and thrown out of office by now.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:42pm
  PRO: Agree. Bush would have been found guilty in another Trial By Media just like Zimmerman..long before any impeachment actions were taken !
  
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RedDirtTexas
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:08am
Don’t know if they can fully trust the rebels…The fact is NO YOU CAN”T! A rat is a rat is a rat is a rat!!! Muslims do NOT know what it means to be trustworthy! These folks are just the same as the Assad folks but will side with the muslim brotherhood in the end. Still enemies of America. Some people you just can’t reach!

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- barber2
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:23am
  RED: Agree. The international Left is united with all of the rebels : they want ” change.” The problem ? Like Stalin, our Lefties have joined forces with Hitler-like Islamic fanatics who will turn on the stupid Lefties as soon as they all destroy ” capitalism” which unites them at the moment. Just like Hitler turned on Stalin. An evil bunch of bad guys. All lying about wanting to have ” democracy. ” Like Turkey’s Erdogan said : ” Democracy is like a bus. You ride it until you get to your stop. Then you get off.”
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:50am
  @Barber
  “The international Left is united with all of the rebels”
  
  Left? Didn’t Romney campaign on supporting the Syrian rebels? He even talked about arming them. Both the left AND the right ( the RINO right, that is ) support the rebels.
  
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- DEDDROBB
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:05pm
  @dissentnow
  
  Yeah the same Mitt Romney that’s in support of carbon credits. Just what we need more taxes
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:41pm
  Romney ? Nice distraction from the point I was making. He does not share the anti-capitalism which is the glue that binds the international Left and which is shared by the Obama Chicago radicals.
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:09pm
  Romneycare was about as anti-capitalist as you can get….just saying.
  No distraction here. I’m making the point that you can’t just blame the left for supporting the rebels when the right supports them as well. Fair enough?
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:44pm
  dissentnow
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:50am
  Left? Didn’t Romney campaign on supporting the Syrian rebels? He even talked about arming them.
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  Yep:
  
  Boston Globe (May 29, 2012): “Mitt Romney urges US to arm Syrian rebels, lead effort to oust Bashar Assad”
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:04am
Translation – CIA is providing intel to terrorists of the Muslim Brotherhood, while said terrorists are being armed via the CIA under Obama’s orders; and the head of the CIA is an operative loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood. And do not forget the degree of influence and infiltration achieved by the Muslim Brotherhood inside the administration.

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- Small World
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:35am
  Why is this not treason???? Can you say IMPEACH!
  
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- CatB
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:25pm
  @SMALL WORLD .. I have come to the conslusion there is no more “treason” .. at least for those in the government … now if a TEA Party member did anything .. well that would be a different story.
  
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CatYoung
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:03am
The UN should not be trusted in doing an impartial investigaiton. The UN can’t be trusted. Period.

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- dissentnow
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:14am
  We should not even be in the UN!
  
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Gonzo
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:01am
So, the CIA is working with Islamists in Syria and droning them everywhere else. Can our foreign policy get any more confusing?

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:07am
  Actually its fairly simple:
  
  Muslim Brotherhood controls the terrorist/rebels in Syria.
  Muslim Brotherhood has strong influence in the CIA and White House
  CIA is, via Obama’s orders arming the terrorist/rebels in Syria
  CIA is, via Obama’s orders, giving intelligence and training to the terrorist/rebels.
  
  All of it ties back to two figures: The Muslim Brotherhood and to Obama, their ally in the White House.
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:01am
  Our foreign policy has been confusing for many, many years. One minute we’re arming, supporting, and funding the Mujahideen, and the next minute they are using our weapons, training, and money to kill us and attack our foreign interests. One minute al-Qaeda is flying planes into our buildings, and the next minute our CIA is feeding them intelligence ( along with money and guns ).
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:01am
  GONZO, SNOW, He’s working on his next Benghazi. Maybe by now they have worked the kinks out so it will go more smoothly.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:49pm
  or next 9/11 inside job with the same group of people.
  
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