Mike Pompeo Says 'No Direct' Link Between Saudi Crown Prince and Khashoggi Killing in CIA Report

[demmiblue]

Source: Newsweek

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denied reports that a recent CIA investigation had established direct links between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and the death of a Saudi journalist at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul.

Jamal Khashoggi's death at the hands of Riyadh's agents has prompted new criticism over the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia, already under fire due to the war it leads against a Zaidi Shiite Muslim rebel group known as the Houthis or Ansar Allah in Yemen. Reports have indicated that a classified CIA inquiry into Khashoggi's slaying directly implicated Prince Mohammed, but Pompeo denied this as senators prepared to vote on whether the U.S. should continue providing military assistance to Saudi Arabia.

"I do believe I've read every piece of intelligence unless it's come in in the last few hours. I think I've read it all," Pompeo said, himself the former CIA director. "There is no direct reporting connecting the crown prince to order the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. And that’s all I can say in an unclassified setting."

In a blog post prior to the briefing, the top diplomat said that "degrading U.S.-Saudi ties would be a grave mistake for the national security of the U.S. and its allies."

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Link to tweet

These people are evil.

[guillaumeb]

1. Meaning that the Prince only ordered the killing.

The GOP knows all about plausible deniability.

[Botany]

6. And the killers flew to Turkey on the Crown Prince's ...

... plane, then called MBS and said the job is done, and the embassy's employees called a painting and clean up crew after the killers left.

[guillaumeb]

15. Do you believe in a tremendous combination of circumstances?

Nor do I.

[Botany]

16. Watch the clip at the bottom of the thread Malcolm Nance

.... Steph Miller.... the killers flew in what was the Saudi equivalent of Air Force One.

[guillaumeb]

17. And, sad as it is to say, Trump voters do not care.

They exist in a parallel universe.

[thbobby]

2. Well, asswipe Mattis, the Dems have the House soon.

So enjoy lying while you still can.

[djacq]

3. So why didn't CIA Director Haspel speak?

Save it for the new Congress.

[Iliyah]

4. All they do is LIE . . . .

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. That's because they used a bonesaw.

Secy Mattis: "There is no smoking gun" connecting Crown Prince to Khashoggi murder.

Pinche-Pastor: "That's because they used a bonesaw."

Link to tweet

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Despite a tape recording of the actual killing, recorded in the SA compound? Sure...no evidence. n

[Javaman]

8. and I'm supposed to believe this water carrier, why? nt

[NastyRiffraff]

9. Why did they block CIA Director Gina Haspel?

She should have been the one presenting the evidence. She's the CURRENT CIA Director.

[harumph]

10. Read: The crown prince was not witnessed with a bone saw in hand. Yay! Good enough!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

11. The key word is "direct."

There may not be direct evidence of the Crown Prince picking up the phone and telling the head of the hit squad, "Go kill Khashoggi," but I'll bet there's evidence that he told the commander of the hit squad to send his best men to chop up the journalist, and then the commander picked up the phone and told the head of the hit squad to go do it. That would be indirect evidence of link between the Prince and the killing.

Listen carefully to what Dotard, Mattis, SHS, et al,. say.

With this administration, you've got to listen to every...single...word.

BTW, Dubya and his band of thieves did the same thing when they were selling the idea starting a war on Iraq. They would say, "Saddam Hussein harbors terrorists like the ones who attacked us on 9/11." One person slipped up and said, "the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11," and they immediately got him back in front of the cameras to repeat the party line. When reporters asked people why we should go to war with Iraq they would say, "Because they attacked us on 9/11!" Mission accomplished.

[rurallib]

12. as always their actions do not match their words

They talk flippantly as they cover up yet another crime.

Only 5 weeks left until the American people are represented in congress once more.

[Delphinus]

13. Unbelievable!

How can they lie so brazenly?! And get away with it?

[aggiesal]

14. Translation ...

There is actually a 'Direct' Link Between Saudi Crown Prince and Khashoggi Killing
We just can't admit it or show you.

[Initech]

18. Nothing to see here! Please disperse!