The Tussle Over Syria

... this time observed a “catfight” in Washington between the CIA, the Pentagon, and the State Department over policies towards Syria. While the Pentagon was interested in fighting ISIS, the State Department, together with the CIA, placed the major emphasis ... ... because one of the key opponents of this State-CIA goal was Obama’s former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, General Mike Flynn. Flynn’s first trip to Russia was in 2014, when he became the first US military intelligence officer ever allowed ...