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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 cancelled: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump...

Does anyone have insight here?

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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."

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

The WaPo is not an independent reporting body, its parent group Amazon, has juicy contracts from the CIA, you can trust nothing it prints.

Amazon is not WaPo’s parent; Bezos owns it independently of Amazon.

Still a conflict of interest.

If you're a conspiracy theorist, sure. Why would WaPo write negatively about the CIA if that were the case?

>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.

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