Theyre very familiar with those weapons is done by contractors and i know Beltway Companies that stilling gauging that activity happens also in afghanistan wherever you have this kind of activity you have clandestine programs are presently run by the agency cia and it goes on and on and on and the way it probably happened in a number of ways is that they really captured or they went to opposition fighters who may have joined isis but in many some of them were actually mislaid when they were parachuted in either of those approaches and in the one case when isis initially took over mosul back in two thousand and fourteen. They took incredible amounts of weaponry from the iraqi fighters who went and then mosul fell so they were theyve been able to get these weapons theyve been able. To. Actually modify it to to suit their purposes and and be able to adjust launch tubes for example so that they can comply with. The weapon systems itself so the ice is engineers if you will were very very cl
Weeks. Of the watch of the hawks i robot and im having a while and then joining us today to discuss the arms business in syria is former pentagon analyst Michael Maloof thanks for joining us pleasure always a pleasure so michael let walk us through this how exactly in your expertise in your belief do you believe these weapons and that up in the hands of isis what do you know they told us that they are being are the syrians and then they ended up at isis house what do you think happened well it was a very clandestine program to obtain from Eastern Europe a lot of the weapons that syrian. Opposition forces were very good half million with. A k forty seven zero r. P. G. Where do you get them from Eastern Europe and the you still have surplus is there today youre very familiar with those weapons by contractors and nobel waco. But is it still in gauging that activity happens also in afghanistan where ever you have this kind of activity you have clandestine programs principally run by the ag
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The president encouraged all of us to spend time with the press because even on an offtherecord, if we couldnt answer their questions, we better go back and do more homework. The last thing ill say, one of my fondest vignettes of the press and reagan was Sam Donaldson, lou cannon of the Washington Post, Andrea Mitchell of nbc news were all fighting about who was going to do the last pool report on air force one or 26,000 as we headed back to california at the end of the reagan presidency. And my lasting memory on a portable typewriter was Sam Donaldson on the floor of air force one typing the final pool report and reagan came back to say thank you. Thats the kind of relationship, even though it gets tough, iran contra, my job in the aftermath of iran contra was to remind reagan before he went within shouting distance of sam or andrea or anybody else, remember if you answer the question on iran contra, you might as well not give the speech youre giving today because nobody is going to c
To authority, quite responsive to what a president wants and if you look at the various covert actions over the years and ill be discussing some of them, these were directed, conceptualized orchestrated endorsed by president s of the United States. Now, when we get into the controversy of the cia itself, i think its important to understand that when president s come to washington, they fall in love with two institutions. They fall in love with camp david and they fall in love with the cia. And when they fall in love with the cia, unfortunately, its with the clandestine aspect of the cia. Its Clandestine Operations and its covert action that they fall in love with. Harry truman was an exception to this and ill discuss that in a minute. When president s have had trouble with the cia, its been over intelligence analysis where i spent 24 years as a soviet analyst. And the remarks of a couple president s will i think demonstrate what i mean. One of my favorites is Richard Nixon. When Richar