They probably were there "weeks ago" but the CIA-entry just got the official presidential seal of approval, so it can be "ramped-up" significantly.
Haven’t they admitted that there was a clandestine Presidential Finding weeks ago that gave zerO authority to send in covert ops?
Seems to me that the plausible deniability is gone and was likely never there in the first place. I want to hear some Democrats railing on about the Imperial Presidency.
Krauthammer made some comment about there being no boots on the ground because they were issued “shower shoes”. I think he meant “flip flops”.
No one is supposed to be upset because this is “normal operations” and besides, there only a “very few” Marines. Compared to what? IRRC, the initial admitted deployment was 2200. This is 2x the reported number of *rebels*, aka Al Queda.