Obama Administration and Sotloff Family Battle Over Blame for Journalist’s Kidnapping

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Barfi’s latest account is a detailed expansion of the comments he made September 10 on CNN when he said Sotloff “was sold at the border” to ISIS for probably between $25,000 and $50,000 by “the so-called moderate rebels that people want our administration to support.” The Sotloff family was already irate at the administration for what they saw as disrespect, mistreatment, and neglect of the information they were offering as to Steven’s abduction and whereabouts. But Barfi’s shocking allegation, if true, would call into question the entire basis for the administration’s new strategy in Syria, which rests upon America’s ability to trust the moderate opposition. Perhaps that’s why Secretary of State John Kerry vigorously and publicly rebutted Barfi’s account last week—and then went a step further. Kerry, in testimony before Congress, said Barfi had been the victim of an information operation perpetrated by ISIS itself. “Actually, there is intelligence that refutes it,” Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee when asked about Barfi’s story.

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bomb ISIS who is fighting al qaeda - bomb them too; don't bomb assad who is fighting al qaeda and isis and the free syrian army - arm the free syrian army so they can defeat assad, al qaeda AND isis



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Obama Administration and Sotloff Family Battle Over Blame for Journalist’s Kidnapping