potentially lead us to a point where they could actually arm the rebels. explain what this means. the president signs this directive, allows cia operatives to do some things there. what are they doing in this reconnaissance and how are they moving forward? well, i think they were there before the covert action finding was signed and it was a smart move. we don t know who these rebels are, who their leaders are, we don t know if they were trained or if we can do anything with them. so sending cia intelligence officers into libya was smart, necessary and i m sure it was done. now, the question is, if there really is a covert action finding in the works, do we arm these people? i would say that s going to be a tough one. the libyan rebels are not a fighting force, they re not cohesive. a couple of them are defectors, but that s not enough to make a unit. do we want the united states in a covert war in libya? they can t stay covert, as we ve seen these reports, these leaks. so we might a
but the white house would sort of lay a few hints that there was a sish component, a secret component. and to learn more about what that was was one of the more interesting aspects of the story for us, the idea that he authorized u.s. spy agencies to basically 34r57b9 siplant cybere the battlefield for future presidents including donald trump. and are measures to put those in place, are they still ongoing? yes. as far as we can tell, he they appear to be moving forward. i mean, it would take trump issuing a counter hakount tecou to reverse the prod is the way it was explained to us. so this is a covert action finding that obama signed. it would take a specific action by trump to reverse it. you connect august tll the d