Senator Ron Wyden demands public intelligence assessment on Khashoggi killing
A Democratic senator is calling on the U.S. intelligence community to issue a public assessment on the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the wake of news reports that the CIA concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in a statement Monday called on CIA Director Gina Haspel and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats “to come out and provide the American people and the Congress with a public assessment of who ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.”
The Washington Post reported last week that the CIA had assessed with high confidence that the Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi’s killing, contrary to claims by the Saudi government that he played no role. Khashoggi, a U.S.-based journalist who was critical of the Saudi government and wrote for The Washington Post, was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
The Saudi government has offered various explanations for Khashoggi’s disappearance, at first claiming he left the consulate unharmed and later describing his murder as a rogue operation. The top Saudi prosecutor said last week that Khashoggi's body had been dismembered and that the government was seeking the death penalty for five of its agents involved in the killing.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/417496-senator-demands-public-intelligence-assessment-on-khashoggi-killing