What if the president signed off on the CIA’s plan?
From Watergate: What did the president know, and when did he know it?
http://www.nbcuniversalarchives.com/nbcuni/clip/51A02223_002.do
This President? He hired a bunch of ‘yes-guys’ for his White House staff and for the key positions. So they walk in and occasionally brief him on new operations, and he just gazes at them and nods his head. I doubt if he ever understood the plan from start to finish, or the implications of selling weapons through a jihad group to Syrian rebels. Some signed Presidential ok? No....there is no such thing. Just some ten brief over five or six operations starting up, and he likely never remembered anything (call it issues from his marijuana usage or whatever, but it doesn’t matter).
Would the CIA run guns WITHOUT Obama’s approval? I doubt it.