Are you uncomfortable with the CIA training Syrian rebels? Good news.

[jakeXT]

1. At least it's open now ... unlike with Bush/Cheney, but then again the cat is out of the bag

Some of the core tactics of the redirection are not public, however. The clandestine operations have been kept secret, in some cases, by leaving the execution or the funding to the Saudis, or by finding other ways to work around the normal congressional appropriations process, current and former officials close to the Administration said.

A senior member of the House Appropriations Committee told me that he had heard about the new strategy, but felt that he and his colleagues had not been adequately briefed. “We haven’t got any of this,” he said. “We ask for anything going on, and they say there’s nothing. And when we ask specific questions they say, ‘We’re going to get back to you.’ It’s so frustrating.”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_hersh?currentPage=all