I think that it being put out that maybe the US will expel Gulen back to Turkey

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to appease Erdogan after the killing of a Washington Post reporter in the Saudi Embassy in Turkey is just a ruse. The public airing is the ruse. It is so abhorrent that putting it out there and then not doing it will cause massive relief. And perhaps satisfy Americans and others around the world that they don't want to hold the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia guilty anymore if it were not to means sending another landed immigrant to his torture and death. Quite brilliant little set up in our minds. We will not want punishment for a crime if it means a similar crime will then occur.