I’m sure everyone knew this from classified sessions. It’s against the law to comment on classified information. I noticed the question was carefully parsed to ask if Panetta and Hillary supported the idea of arming the Syrian Rebels. He said he did support the idea. He did not mention it ever being operational.
Griffin is reporting that Penetta and Hillary went to the White House and requested to arm the Syrian Rebels.. and that the White House initially shot down the idea.
But that after a time they decided to go with it.