The former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, told a PBS “Charlie Rose” audience the reason America doesn’t try to take out certain oil wells in the Mideast – specifically, the ones that help fuel and finance ISIS – is because the White House is afraid of causing collateral environmental damage.
“We didn’t go after oil wells, actually hitting oil wells that ISIS controls, because we didn’t want to do environmental damage and we didn’t want to destroy that infrastructure,” he said, the Hill reported....