Obama administration officials did not bother to debrief high-level Syrian defectors with deep knowledge of Islamic State’s inner workings, The Daily Beast reports.
“I took the initiative and contacted friends at the State Department, and we had a lunch or dinner. That was it,” one former Syrian official who lives in Washington, D.C., with deep knowledge of al-Qaida networks told TheDB. These officials admit staging attacks on Syrian regime facilities to appear connected to Jihadis and to allowing original al-Qaida officials into Syria unchecked. – READ MORE
