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Source: The Guardian
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 didnt 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
(135,795 posts)He Is A Traitor
Botany
(70,447 posts)spanone
(135,795 posts)Happy Thanksgiving to you too!!!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)No collusion, no collusion! That was my SIL Jared! He colluded with Saudi in the murder of that man!
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,155 posts)Im sure theyll pay you back tenfold.
C_U_L8R
(44,990 posts)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
(70,447 posts)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
RichardRay
(2,611 posts)...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.