Trump: CIA 'didn't conclude' Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi death

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump: CIA 'didn't conclude' Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi death

President disagrees with his own intelligence agency after a report said it assessed that Mohammed bin Salman did order the murder

Martin Pengelly
Thu 22 Nov 2018 15.51 GMT Last modified on Thu 22 Nov 2018 15.53 GMT

Donald Trump ranged himself against his own intelligence community on Thursday, disputing that the CIA had “concluded” that Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The president spoke a week after the Washington Post first reported that the agency had assessed that the Saudi crown prince did order the murder.

Khashoggi, a Post columnist and US resident, went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October. He is believed to have been killed and dismembered. His body has not been found.

“They didn’t conclude,” Trump insisted, asked about the CIA report when speaking to reporters at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/22/trump-cia-saudi-crown-prince-jamal-khashoggi-murder

[spanone]

1. Same thing he did when he refused to believe the intelligence agencies on Russian interference

He Is A Traitor

[Botany]

3. Too bad that the CIA has recordings of MSB ordering the hit on Khashoggi.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142208475

Happy Thanx Day spanone

[spanone]

6. Thanks Botany.....

Happy Thanksgiving to you too!!!

[ProudLib72]

2. No Rump, you're thinking of "collude"

No collusion, no collusion! That was my SIL Jared! He colluded with Saudi in the murder of that man!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Keep disparaging the intelligence community Donald

I’m sure they’ll pay you back tenfold.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Yeah ...but for the recorded phone calls

where the prince orders the 'silencing' of Khashoggi.
There's no washing away that damn spot.

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/report-cia-has-tape-of-saudi-crown-prince-giving-instructions-to-silence-khasoggi-1.6677571

[Botany]

7. And one of the killers is recorded as saying something like, "Tell the boss the job is done."

After Khashoggi was murdered. But no worries Trump had Pompeo fly 1/2 way round the world
for a 15 minute meeting w/MSB in order to get their cover stories straight.

But at the end of the day Donny is from a mob background and putting out a hit on somebody is
S. O. P. for those people.

Happy Thanx Day C_U_L8R

[ck4829]

8. Sure

[RichardRay]

9. They never *conclude*...

...they state with *levels of confidence*. Conclusions are are left to the consumer. Unfortunately the consumer, in this case, has already made up his mind. No amount of evidence will change that.