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we are being asked to follow the whistleblower on the Jamal Khashoggi matter, on twitter (Original Post) Grasswire2 Dec 2019 OP
There was 2naSalit Dec 2019 #1
background tweet Grasswire2 Dec 2019 #2
So was Wikistrat one of the investigations Mueller handed off? Mike 03 Dec 2019 #3
Penn's account is weird. From what I could gather Mueller was investigating Zamel's other octoberlib Dec 2019 #7
Two Tweets, both from eight hours ago... Mike 03 Dec 2019 #4
Jamal Khashoggi was a columnist for the Washington Post Hortensis Dec 2019 #5
This has to do with Joel Zamel , who owns Wikistrats and was investigated by Mueller octoberlib Dec 2019 #6
So from Steadman's Youtube interview with Penn , they hired Khashoggi at the behest of Zamel octoberlib Dec 2019 #8
Who are we and who is asking? MineralMan Dec 2019 #9

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
3. So was Wikistrat one of the investigations Mueller handed off?
Tue Dec 17, 2019, 07:33 AM
Dec 2019

Inside Wikistrat, the Mysterious Intelligence Firm Now in Mueller’s Sights

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-mysterious-intelligence-firm-now-in-muellers-sights

I don't understand Matt Penn's Twitter account. First it showed he had not Tweeted, but after I followed there are thirty Tweets. I think it's premature to blow this guy off.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
7. Penn's account is weird. From what I could gather Mueller was investigating Zamel's other
Tue Dec 17, 2019, 09:19 AM
Dec 2019

psyops company concerning manipulating social media in the 2016 election.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Jamal Khashoggi was a columnist for the Washington Post
Tue Dec 17, 2019, 08:12 AM
Dec 2019

and a Saudi journalist who was murdered in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul after he entered to obtain a document he needed in order to get married.

His fiancee had been waiting for him outside the embassy, so the Washington Post and local and other authorities were contacted as soon as she became alarmed. The Post has continued to aggressively investigate and report on the murder of their colleague and friend ever since.

The murder of Khashoggi, strongly believed to be on the orders of Trump "friend" Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is currently a very hot political potato for Trump/Republicans.

On Mr. Khashoggi's side are: Democrats demanding accountability for Saudi's top leadership. We are requiring a final determination from the Trump administration, which has allied with his murders and assisted in the coverup of the murder, within 30 days.

Covering up for Khashoggi's murderers are: Trump and Kushner, Republicans, Sawdi Arabia.

Get the picture?

What's not in it is any reporting of a "whistleblower." I'm wondering if this post appearing at this time is part of a RW/Sawdi scheme to smear Mr. Khashoggi through social media as a spy instead of a journalist. As everyone who's ever watched spy movies knows, they get murdered all the time. Just part of the job. No big deal, and it's not like they don't ask for it.

Whereas, murdering a Washington Post journalist and permanent U.S. resident is very bad and should have been extremely dangerous for SA. Salman should have been too afraid of the enormous power of the U.S. to touch Mr. Khashoggi, but he wasn't.

We need to know if bin Salman's friend and ally Trump or others of his administration or circles had any advance knowledge that was not acted on, or were complicit in any other way. America needs justice and Khaghoggi's murderers need retribution. And our journalists, and others such as our ambassadors, need foreign enemies to once again be too afraid to take us on.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
6. This has to do with Joel Zamel , who owns Wikistrats and was investigated by Mueller
Tue Dec 17, 2019, 09:12 AM
Dec 2019

Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/politics/trump-jr-saudi-uae-nader-prince-zamel.html


WASHINGTON — Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation. Another was an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes. The third was a Republican donor with a controversial past in the Middle East as a private security contractor.

The meeting was convened primarily to offer help to the Trump team, and it forged relationships between the men and Trump insiders that would develop over the coming months — past the election and well into President Trump’s first year in office, according to several people with knowledge of their encounters.

Erik Prince, the private security contractor and the former head of Blackwater, arranged the meeting, which took place on Aug. 3, 2016. The emissary, George Nader, told Donald Trump Jr. that the princes who led Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were eager to help his father win election as president. The social media specialist, Joel Zamel, extolled his company’s ability to give an edge to a political campaign; by that time, the firm had already drawn up a multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help elect Mr. Trump.


Private Mossad for Hire https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/private-mossad-for-hire

Here's a video interview with Penn


octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
8. So from Steadman's Youtube interview with Penn , they hired Khashoggi at the behest of Zamel
Tue Dec 17, 2019, 09:25 AM
Dec 2019

and then were told to hire other Saudis "like Khashoggi" , in other words, Saudi dissidents. They had other Saudi dissidents apply for jobs and then once Wikistrats had all their information, never hired them. It was a ploy to track down Saudi dissidents for MBS so he could assassinate them.

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