CIA op Timber Sycamore created, trained and funded ISIS. Trump shut it down
Behind the Sudden Death of a $1 Billion Secret C.I.A. War in Syria
https://archive.is/XAWKh#selection-251.0-256.0
The shuttering of the C.I.A. program, one of the most expensive efforts to arm and train rebels since the agency’s program arming the mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the 1980s, has forced a reckoning over its successes and failures. Opponents say it was foolhardy, expensive and ineffective. Supporters say that it was unnecessarily cautious, and that its achievements were remarkable given that the Obama administration had so many restrictions on it from the start, which they say ultimately ensured its failure.