A few hours ago, the flow of information halted. The people sending messages and updates stopped. They could be hiding. They could have turned off phones so the signal didn't betray them to a quad copter. Or they could be gone. tweet: x.com/Omar_Gaza/st...

Robert Ford retired from the Foreign Service. Anne Barnard was formerly a news bureau chief in Beirut, Syria and Iraq. He says the White House & NSC decided to go along with this. Barnard is highlighting that the problem isn't the U.S. can't do anything. It's a choice. x.com/ABarnardNYC/...