White House denies Haspel prevented from briefing Senate on Khashoggi murder

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Source: Guardian

The White House has denied preventing the CIA director, Gina Haspel, from briefing the Senate on the murder of Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi.

Senior senators including the chairman of the foreign relations committee, Bob Corker, have called for Haspel to appear, but there was no sign on Tuesday evening that she will take part.

Officials said that the decision for Haspel not to appear in front of the committee came from the White House, but the national security adviser, John Bolton, denied it. "Certainly not," he told reporters, but left it unclear why there would be no intelligence presence.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/27/jamal-khashoggi-murder-senate-briefing-saudi-arabia-gina-haspel-white-house

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Oh! the insanity of this WH! Trump likes having things crazy. I am sorry I got caught up in it.
We are all targets for the WH.

Just a few hours ago the LBN was: https://democraticunderground.com/10142211381
That the WH prevented Haspel from briefing the Senate.

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1. Ok, so when does she appear, not rocket science to see where the truth falls

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2. Spot on! That will be the real truth teller.

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8. It does not look like see will appear...........

.........As of Tuesday, however, the Senate was told by the administration to expect only Pompeo and Mattis at the Wednesday briefing. The White House did not respond to a query on the absence of an intelligence official.

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3. Both statements were in the same article in the other LBN thread so yours may end up being a dupe.

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6. What is new is that the WH denies it.

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10. It'll depend on how the LBN Hosts interpret it

(been there done that)

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11. I posted pretty fast, so I learned later it is essentially the same article except for...

the WH denial AND that Haspel has not appeared as of Tuesday evening.

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4. "there was no sign on Tuesday evening that she will take part." ummm..

Beyond stinking fishy!


........On a national security issue of such importance, it would be customary for a senior intelligence official to take part, Senate staffers said. On this occasion, the absence of the intelligence community is all the more glaring, as Haspel travelled to Istanbul to hear audio tapes of Khashoggi’s murder provided by Turkish intelligence, and then briefed Donald Trump.

Senior senators including the chairman of the foreign relations committee, Bob Corker, have called for Haspel to appear, but there was no sign on Tuesday evening that she will take part.

Officials said that the decision for Haspel not to appear in front of the committee came from the White House, but the national security adviser, John Bolton, denied it. “Certainly not,” he told reporters, but left it unclear why there would be no intelligence presence.


According to multiple reports, the tapes and other intelligence material point clearly to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as having ordered Khashoggi’s killing in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October.

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5. The White House lies

That’s no surprise.

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7. Why would/should anyone believe ANYTHING

The WH days about matter in dispute?!?!

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9. "There would be no intelligence presence."

Isn't that always the way it is with this WH?

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12. So...they didn't prevent it

But she is still not going to brief.


So...was it the Deep State? Or who?

Amazing how they get away with having their cake and eating it too.

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13. They don't

They eat the cake, and then lie about still having it.

The cake is long gone.

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14. These WH idjots ...

... play musical chairs with the Insanity Goal Posts.