What exactly constitutes culpable deniability though?
In this case the covert Eastern European arms
shipments that various front companies provably ordered under us military export licenses were for the moderate rebels. So why didn't you supply them with US made arms then? Is it because you didn't want to be seen to be arming Al-Qaeda while covertly arming Al-Qaeda, I think so, but regardless of what I think if you dump arms into a warzone and they end up in Al-Qaeda and ISIS's arms caches then you remain accountable.
Consecutive Tory administrations have used jihadis to fight their proxy wars since Thatcher, they are warmongerers, evil.