The CIA has leaked against Jared Kushner and Trump that Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS), the Saudi crown prince, ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
President Trump had asked the CIA to do an assessment of the murder. Apparently, from the leak to the US press, part of the evidence came from National Security Agency wiretaps of the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC. They caught Khalid Bin Salman, the crown prince’s brother and Saudi ambassador to the US, telling Khashoggi that it would be fine for him to pick up the paperwork needed for his marriage to his Turkish fiancee from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Either Prince Khalid was in on the plot to murder Khashoggi, or he was duped by his brother to lull the dissident journalist into a false sense of security. He called Khashoggi on instructions from his brother, MBS.
Trump had asked for the report, but it is unlikely that he wanted it made public. The CIA is deliberately leaking it. Since the agency is aware that Mohammed Bin Salman is teflon inside Saudi Arabia, it seems probable that the target of the leak is in the US. The member of the administration closest to MBS is Jared Kushner, though Trump himself has admitted that he wants the sale of US arms to MBS more than he wants Khashoggi’s killer brought to justice. The CIA may be attempting to discredit Kushner and to detach Trump from his alliance with the crown prince.
The Saudi government has attempted to whitewash the murder. First it denied the killing. Then it blamed low-level rogue intelligence agents. Then it sentenced the latter to death so as to make sure they do not talk. The Saudis deny that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered that Khashoggi be whacked, which is laughable, since no one would dare do such a thing without his orders. It is an absolute monarchy, after all.
Source: Is CIA Leak of Bin Salman’s Guilt in Khashoggi Murder Aimed at Kushner, or Trump Himself?
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Well, we all should remember that the Saudis were never held accountable for their involvement in 9/11 or for being “Beheaders Central” even as journalists were ‘allegedly’ being beheaded by members of ISIS and that shit was deemed, horrible even as Barack and Michele Obama paid respects to the deceased supreme beheader who was quickly replaced by an equally vile and atrocious and reprehensible ‘supreme beheader’. And so now we come to this. Since when has the U.S. government gave a damn for the shenanigans of whatever despot they are in bed with at any given time? So long as said despot is necessary for their plans, schemes and goals, do we seriously think they give an actual good goddamn over the killing of yet another journalist? Everyone is expendable if and when they are in the way. Haven’t you heard?
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I think you’re probably right, Shelby. If it weren’t for the ongoing “war” (I don’t know if it’s a real or sham war – I expect the latter) between the CIA and Trump, this whole episode would have been covered up and we wouldn’t know about it. In my mind, it provides an excellent overview of the gatekeeping function the CIA plays over the western media. All the same, I will be pleased if it hastens the end of military atrocities in Yemen.
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Well, we all should remember that the Saudis were never held accountable … for being “Beheaders Central”.
Who do you think you are to tell other countries how to punish criminals.
In the UK and America millions of people, especially ethnic minorities are given long jail sentences for quite minor crimes and get anally raped for decades on end.
If that is not a cruel and unusual punishment I don’t know what is.
At least no one anally rapes the murderers and rapists who rightly get the chop in chop chop square.
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Trump, I hope!
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Same here, Phil.
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