On Friday of last week doctor and secret intelligence agent Ben Carson said his campaign would 'release some material' on China's presence in Syria "before the weekend is over," but as far as I can gleam no such material documenting a Chinese presence in Syria has been released.
CARSON: "We'll be releasing some material on that before the weekend is over. [...]
I have several sources that I've gotten material from. I'm surprised my sources are better than theirs."
I wasn't necessarily expecting the Carson campaign to release material that doesn't exist, but I did at least expect a link to World Net Daily or InfoWars.
What we do have is the next best thing. Carson said he was surprised, just as we all were, that he has better intelligence sources than the White House has access to and now we know who that source is.
Carson's revered source is retired Major General Robert Dees, a man who, among other things, believes Common Core education standards have threatened our national security. Also, Benghazi.
"One of the elements of that spiritual infrastructure of the United States of America is the proper retention of national history instead of historical revisionism to fit a convenient narrative," he said to applause. “The historical revisionism that we see in Benghazi is symptomatic of historical revisionism we see across our country, across the world of politics and even in the Common Core curriculum, for instance, of the Obama administration."
In case you aren't aware, Common Core has absolutely nothing to do with history curriculum. Common Core standards are a measure of student proficiency in Mathematics and English Language Arts.
Major General Dees also believes in the non-existent "no-go zones" where Shariah law is supreme.
Dees declared that the U.S. had "been infiltrated" by Muslim extremists at a 2013 Christian men's conference. [...]
Dees repeated that story at the 2014 Values Voter Summit, adding Lackawanna, New York to the list of cities where residents are in contact with associates in the Middle East. He went as far as to say that those cities are “all Islamic sanctuaries in the United States within which there are fundamentalist sleeper cells."
It goes without saying that Ben Carson does not have better intelligence sources than the White House, but this certainly makes that crystal clear.
Major General Dees isn't so much an information source as he is a misinformation source.