"The Jordanian government had a strong incentive to gloss over the murders of the three Green Berets. Likewise, the CIA was scared of potential blowback and the exposing of their covert program," says investigative journalist Jack Murphy, himself an Army special forces veteran.
The propagandic wordsmithery is becoming pathetic as the Obama administration desperately avoids having to admit that it is sending more "boots on the ground" to strengthen its invasion of Syria. Having admitted to "greatly increasing" its operations in the war-torn nation earlier in the month, Defense Department spokesman Peter Cook today outlined why 250 additional Special Forces operatives will be put - in his words - "in harm's way" to "improve intelligence" carefully adding that "they will not be engaged in direct combat...