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C.I.A. Concludes That Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Khashoggi Killed
The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to American officials.
The C.I.A. made the assessment based on the crown prince's control of Saudi Arabia, which is such that the killing would not have taken place without his approval, and has buttressed its conclusion with two sets of crucial communications: intercepts of the crown prince's calls in the days before the killing, and calls by the kill team to a senior aide to the crown prince.
[...] The increasingly definitive assessment from the spy agency creates a problem for President Trump, who has tied his administration to Prince Mohammed and proclaimed him the future of Saudi Arabia, a longtime American ally. But the new assessment by the C.I.A. is sure to harden the resolve of lawmakers on Capitol Hill to continue to investigate the killing of Mr. Khashoggi and punish Saudi Arabia.
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, has been particularly close to Prince Mohammed. Mr. Kushner has long advocated that a strong relationship with the Saudis is in the United States' interest, and he has pushed to maintain support for the crown prince despite the death of Mr. Khashoggi, who Saudi officials now say was killed with a lethal dose of tranquilizers and dismembered. Previously, Saudi officials said that Mr. Khashoggi had been strangled.
[...] Neither administration officials nor intelligence officers believe the controversy over Mr. Khashoggi will drive Prince Mohammed from power, which is one reason White House officials believe cutting ties with the prince would not be in the interest of the United States.
takyon: The Saudis have denied the reports.
See also: Saudi media ignore US reports on Khashoggi
Top White House Official Involved in Saudi Sanctions Resigns
Previously: Turkey Says that a Missing Critic of the Saudi Government was Killed in Saudi Consulate in Istanbul
Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death
(Score: 2, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday November 18 2018, @01:25AM (5 children)
He and Jared are too busy sucking said Crown Prince off. They'll be done soon enough, just wait around.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @02:11AM
I had fun writing assembly code that protected the DOs partition and obfuscated the MBR upon boot until russian hackers intercepted the writing calls and encoded everything.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:13PM (1 child)
That's kind of a homophobic way to put it, isn't it? Have you been hanging out Ethanol-fueled?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:18PM
It's at about the level of discourse this site can handle, it seems.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Sunday November 18 2018, @05:23PM (1 child)
Unimaginably, it seems that the reaction to this travesty is to get Turkey off of the Saudis backs by helping them kill someone else [nymag.com]. You almost can't make up this level of pure evil without sounding like an Austin Powers movie script.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:05PM
No, no, it's very easy to reach that level of evil.
Just study history.
Especially the history of governments, and the people that run them.
Death by torture, massacre, famine, genocide, culture whitewashes ... you name it, it's well-precedented.
It's almost enough to make one a libertarian.