When Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime collapsed in Syria, the officials who powered it vanished. Many, aided by a lifetime of secrecy, slipped past checkpoints and crossed international borders, all to evade — successfully — accountability. A New York Times investigation uncovered who they are, what they did and where they fled. Video by Haley Willis, Christiaan Triebert, Rebecca Suner, James Surdam, Joey Sendaydiego, David Seekamp, Gabriel Blanco and Sutton Raphael/The New York Times #syria #assad #basharalassad #investigation