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"Pentagon supported plan to arm Syrian rebels" by Michael R. Gordon | New York Times, February 08, 2013
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told Congress on Thursday that the Pentagon had supported a plan to arm Syrian rebels that was developed last year by David H. Petraeus, the CIA director at the time, and backed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was then serving as secretary of state.
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Panetta and General Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were asked by Senator John McCain whether they had supported the recommendation that weapons be provided to the Syrian resistance.
“We did,’’ Panetta said.
“You did support that?’’ the Arizona Republican asked again.
“We did,’’ Dempsey added.
The White House, however, was worried about the risks of getting more deeply involved in the crisis in Syria. And with President Obama in the midst of a reelection bid, the White House rebuffed the plan, rejecting the advice of most of the key members of Obama’s national security team.
The New York Times reported Sunday that as the fighting in Syria raged last summer, Petraeus developed the plan, which Clinton supported and that called for vetting rebels and training fighters who would be supplied with weapons.
His proposal offered the potential reward of creating Syrian allies with whom the United States might work, during the conflict and after President Bashar Assad’s eventual removal.
Some administration officials expected the issue to be revisited again after the election. But when Petraeus resigned because of an extramarital affair and Clinton suffered a concussion, missing weeks of work, the issue was shelved....
Yeah, sure.
Related: "US intelligence agents have helped funnel arms to rebel groups."
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The rest of the article turned its attention to what happened in Benghazi, Libya.
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