Senior Saudi prince says CIA cannot be trusted on Khashoggi conclusion
Source: Reuters
NOVEMBER 24, 2018 / 7:55 AM / UPDATED 24 MINUTES AGO
Katie Paul
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - A senior Saudi prince cast doubt upon the reported CIA finding that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, saying the agency could not be counted on to reach a credible conclusion.
“The CIA is not necessarily the highest standard of veracity or accuracy in assessing situations. The examples of that are multitude,” Prince Turki al-Faisal, a senior member of the royal family, told journalists in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
The prince, a former Saudi intelligence chief who has also served as ambassador to the United States, said the agency’s conclusion that Iraq possessed chemical weapons before the U.S. invasion in 2003 showed it could be unreliable.
“That was the most glaring of inaccurate and wrong assessments, which led to a full-scale war with thousands being killed,” he said, speaking at an event hosted by the New York-based Beirut Institute.
“I don’t see why the CIA is not on trial in the United States. This is my answer to their assessment of who is guilty and who is not and who did what in the consulate in Istanbul.”
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-khashoggi/senior-saudi-prince-says-cia-cannot-be-trusted-on-khashoggi-conclusion-idUSKCN1NT0G5
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Hell, he probably helped push the chemical weapons story in 2003
Are trustworthy IHHO..to have a president bad mouth those people that are tasked to keep americu safe is...
lunacy..
Oh, hey, now that you've told us to ignore the findings of our own intelligence branch that are detrimental to the royal family, of course we'll ignore them.
