WashPost: CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi's assassination

[USALiberal]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-concludes-saudi-crown-prince-ordered-jamal-khashoggis-assassination/2018/11/16/98c89fe6-e9b2-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html

The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, contradicting the Saudi government’s claims that he was not involved in the killing, according to people familiar with the matter.

The CIA’s assessment, in which officials have said they have high confidence, is the most definitive to date linking Mohammed to the operation and complicates the Trump administration’s efforts to preserve its relationship with a close ally. A team of 15 Saudi agents flew to Istanbul on government aircraft in October and killed Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate, where he had come to pick up documents that he needed for his planned marriage to a Turkish woman.

In reaching its conclusions, the CIA examined multiple sources of intelligence, including a phone call that the prince’s brother Khalid bin Salman, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, had with Khashoggi, according to the people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence. Khalid told Khashoggi, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post, that he should go to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to retrieve the documents and gave him assurances that it would be safe to do so.

more at link.......

[kwassa]

1. This is major. The CIA confronts Trump.

[USALiberal]

2. We need to punish them over this! nt

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Would anyone here be surprised

if Cheeto Benito starts tweeting derogatory comments about the CIA and this investigation?

[Kajun Gal]

4. Uh, duh?

[Sneederbunk]

5. But MBS was so convincing on the phone with Trump.

[CatMor]

6. Has Jared Kushner made a statement ....

he bonded with MBS and talked with him far into the night on his visit to Saudi Arabia.

[struggle4progress]

7. Prince bragged Kushner gave him CIA intelligence about other Saudis

Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman bragged of receiving classified US intelligence from Jared Kushner and using it as part of a purge of 'corrupt' princes and businessmen ...

... hundreds were rounded up, including princes from rival parts of the Saudi royal family and some of the country's wealthiest businessmen.

DailyMail.com revealed a photograph showing the detainees sleeping on the floor of a ballroom at the Riyadh Ritz Carlton, and disclosed that some had been tortured.

The New York Times later reported that one of the detainees had died from his injuries ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5575395/Saudi-crown-prince-brags-Jared-Kushner-handed-U-S-intelligence.html

[RockRaven]

8. King Salman needs to wake up. The second Trump isn't POTUS anymore, MBS and his brother Khalid

are either going to be hit with Magnitsky act sanctions, or -- more troublesome for the kingdom -- penalties against their official positions. Only Trump's corruption (and that of the people he's surrounded himself with) is preventing it. The next POTUS might be corrupt too, but not *as* corrupt as Trump.

Salman should be looking for a new crown prince and a new ambassador to the US.

[libdem4life]

9. Wow...this is amazingly unexpected. Just another matter of treason

from those on high. They all are deep in the weeds, so to speak. This along with the Butina matter. No wonder The Cretin is withdrawn. Not so fun to be "in charge" when the sh## starts hitting the fan. One loses count of the scandals and crimes.

[USALiberal]

11. Yep!!!! nt

[MyOwnPeace]

10. No big deal..........

there's good people on both sides..............




Moral leadership - decorum? HA!




And there are 2 rooms full of Republicans that continue to allow this to happen.

[USALiberal]

12. This should be front page news everywhere! nt

[Scurrilous]

13. K&R

[ck4829]

14. Kick