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By Kathryn Watson CBS News July 19, 2017, 4:07 PMReport: Trump ending secret CIA program to arm Syrian rebelsPresident Trump is ending a covert CIA operation to arm and train Syrian rebels fighting against President Bashar al-Assad, something Russia has long desired, according to a Wednesday report in the Washington Post.The Obama administration introduced the operation in 2013, as a part of its efforts to push Assad out of power, and its effectiveness has come into question even among its backers. But the timing of the decision raises questions for the White House, as it fends off accusations that the president and his team obscured his interactions with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this month. On Tuesday, the White House admitted the president had a previously undisclosed discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin over dinner at the G-20. White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday declined to tell reporters during a briefing what Putin and Mr. Trump discussed. The White House is also working to explain the growing list of attendees at the June 2016 meeting Donald Trump Jr. held with a Russian lawyer and others at Trump Tower. Continued: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-trump-ending-secret-cia-program-to-arm-syrian-rebels/
Yet one more step in the right direction from this administration.In before the ne'ertrumpers arrive to dis him!
