5) Here's what a CENTCOM spox told me when I asked what the Pentagon thought about its "rebels" working with Al Qaeda: “We don’t ‘command and control’ these forces - we only ‘train and enable’ them...Who they say they’re allying with, that’s their business." Literally, wow. pic.twitter.com/FF5j6clNwj

— Sharmine Narwani (@snarwani) January 14, 2018