Hillary Clinton's Secrets about Syria and President Bashar Al-Assad and Barack Obama - tech heavyweights like Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Dell, met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

Creative, indeed. It was a mild, but unfortunate distraction from what was widely considered an otherwise productive mission. The delegation of senior executives, from tech heavyweights like Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Dell, met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other officials, as well as businessmen, civil society groups and academics battling their government's tight-fisted control on the Internet.