Secret CIA Effort In Syria Faces Large Funding Cut
Source: Washington Post
By Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung June 12 at 8:53 PM
Key lawmakers have moved to slash funding of a secret CIA operation to train and arm rebels in Syria, a move that U.S. officials said reflects rising skepticism of the effectiveness of the agency program and the Obama administrations strategy in the Middle East.
The House Intelligence Committee recently voted unanimously to cut as much as 20 percent of the classified funds flowing into a CIA program that U.S. officials said has become one the agencys largest covert operations overseas, with a budget approaching $1 billion a year.
There is a great deal of concern on a very bipartisan basis with our strategy in Syria, said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence panel. He declined to comment on specific provisions of the committees bill but cited growing pessimism that the United States will be in a position to help shape the aftermath of Syrias civil war.
The cuts to the CIA program are included in a preliminary intelligence spending bill that is expected to be voted on in the House next week. The measure has provoked concern among CIA and White House officials, who warned that pulling money out of the CIA effort could weaken U.S.-backed insurgents just as they have begun to emerge as effective fighters. The White House declined to comment.
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quadrature
(2,049 posts)for several years.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)like they've always done. For instance the crack epidemic of the 80s. How many people has that impacted?
Prior to reagan for most of the year pot was hard to find around here but as soon as he walked in the door you could find it on about any street corner. Cocaine was the same, pretty much the whole drug scene changed with that crew if criminals that were his inter circle.
madokie
(51,076 posts)worries me more than any other entity in the whole world. Pretty much all the bad shit that has happened in the years since their beginning can be traced back to them.
thats not opinion either that's fact.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)I kinda seem to think I've seen this before but not real sure just yet. At any rate it will be worth the re-watch if I had and the watch if I hadn't.
thx
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)That really is outrageous.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)unless I'm reading it wrong.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)We're fucking up other countries, too.