There appears to be some urgency to the CIA's mission to find Syria's chemical and biological weapons stash. When you consider how active Al-Qaeda in Iraq has been in Syria as well as the Muslim Brotherhood, you can understand why. The Daily Beast: Obama administration officials tell The Daily Beast that the CIA has sent officers to the region to assess Syria's weapons program. One major task for the CIA right now is to work with military defectors to find out as much information on Syria's weapons of mass destruction, according to one U.S. official with access to Syrian intelligence. Another focus will be to sort through reams of intercepted phone calls and emails, satellite images, and other collected intelligence to find the exact locations of the Syrian weapons, this official said.   This task has become more urgent in recent days. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Syrian military was moving its chemical weapons out of storage. On July 17, Nawaf...(Read Full Post)