C.I.A. Arms for Syrian Rebels Supplied Black Market, Officials Say

New York Times ^ | JUNE 26, 2016 | MARK MAZZETTI and ALI YOUNES

[vpintheak]

This crap pisses me off to no extent! This is why Beghazi happened. This is Owebowma and Killary. This is what a criminal government does. This is our government.

[dblshot]

Fast and Furious 2, the sequels are usually not as good as the original

[Ken H]

I wonder how many ended up in ISIS hands.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I’ve been saying this for the last year or so: Syrian rebels have been killing Christians using weapons that Obama gave them. Does anyone care? Apparently not.

[Doogle]

...that’s because you have a nitwit in the WH who appoints nitwits. The government needs a COMPLETE overhaul

[Ann Archy]

Obama’s govt. is our ENEMY! he detests America.

[Gaffer]

We had no business doing ANY of it.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

How many of these “rebels” are Al-Quaida, ISIS,etc?

Probably all of them.

So we are half-assedly bombing them while at the same time arming them. Plus letting the resulting refugees flood our country.

Great job, Bam-Bam. /s

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

We need to get the hell out of these countries. They are of no use to us. Let them fight it out between themselves!! Who cares? I was against Viet Nam too,

[McGruff]

[gattaca]

Next time some uber-leftist brings up Iran-Contra, I’ll remind them of this.

[Diogenesis]

The CIA used to be America, for America.

Now it is an arm of Islamic Terror for al Qaeda.

Shame.
Shame.
Shame.

[Tucker39]

Trump has been saying it for the past year. Including several thousand armored fighting vehicles given to the Iraqis, who abandoned them to ISIS at the sound of the first gunfire.

[BlackVeil]

An important story. I wonder how far this goes - how many sophisticated weapons are floating around.

[Iron Munro]

Fast and Furious 2, the sequels are usually not as good as the original

Wait for the cover-up.

The acting and posturing is always much better.

[grania]

The arms we all knew about. What's significant is the NYT is reporting it.

How about connecting the dots? Along with those arms came training and an attitude that it's okay to go terrorist mode. These "refugees" are flooding Europe and the US with their skills and mind frame.

[Flick Lives]

The CIA created ISIS to overthrow Assad. That worked out poorly; like so many of the CIA interventionist plots.

[VTenigma]

So the same people who have lost, walked, and provided 10,000s of weapons to the worst elements in the world want more control over our firearms. As I said yesterday we need government control not gun control. go

[AC Beach Patrol]

Yeah, the idea of our government being able to determine the good jihadists (they’re all bad) through vetting is a joke. The FBI had two sit-down interviews with Omar Marteen and and got a tip from a fellow mosque member that Marteen was into ISIS videos and propaganda. Still,they didn’t watch him or monitor his activities.