Leaked Hillary Clinton emails from 2012 reveal that Google had sought to help insurgents overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad. Jared Cohen, Google’s head of “Google Ideas”, liaised with Clinton on how Google could get involved in helping the U.S. government to overthrow Assad. “Please keep close hold, but my team is planning to launch a tool … that will publicly track and map the defections in Syria and which parts of the government they are coming from,” Cohen wrote in a July 2012 email to the Clinton team. Washingtonexaminer.com reports: “Our logic behind this is that while many people are tracking the atrocities, nobody is visually representing and mapping the defections, which we believe are important in encouraging more to defect and giving confidence to the opposition,” Cohen said, adding that the plan was for Google to surreptitiously give the tool to Middle Eastern media. Hillary Emails: Google tried to boost Assad defections https://t.co/lyma4eJp9a More: https://t.co/ZUfh7WDAT5 pic.twitter.com/nvNG0lFJWt — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 19, 2016 “Given how hard it is to get information into Syria right now, we are partnering with Al-Jazeera who will take primary ownership over the tool we have built, track the data, verify it, and broadcast it back [...]