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The news comes after senators on both sides of the aisle complained publicly about the Trump administration’s alleged efforts silence Haspel on the matter.
White House officials reportedly told Haspel not to attend a classified congressional briefing on Saudi Arabia last Wednesday. This prompted speculation that the White House wanted to avoid a confrontation between Haspel, whose agents have determined with high confidence that Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered Khashoggi’s murder, and White House personnel who have cast doubt on that finding for reasons unclear.
Following Haspel’s absence from the Wednesday briefing, the new GOP rock star, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), threatened to block Republican leadership’s legislative agenda until Haspel was invited to brief him and his colleagues.
“I’m not going to blow past this. If that briefing is not given soon, it’s gonna be hard for me to vote for any spending bill,” Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill.
When pressed on what specific measures he would oppose, Graham said, “I’m talking about any key vote. Anything that you need me for to get out of town, I ain’t doing it until we hear from the CIA.”
Khashoggi, a former Saudi royal insider and supporter of the terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood, had become a critic of his home country’s ruling class in weekly columns for the Washington Post, disappeared on October 2 after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul while his fiancée and her huge head waited outside.
Saudi officials confirmed the findings of Turkish intelligence agents, who reported soon after Khashoggi’s death that he had been murdered and dismembered in the consulate by a team of Saudi assassins. They have maintained, however, that the crown prince did not order, and did not have foreknowledge of, Khashoggi’s murder.
Yeah, sure, they went rogue.
President Trump and the White House have tacitly endorsed bin Salman’s denials of responsibility, and have said they will not impose sanctions beyond those already levied against 17 individuals believed to have been involved in the killing. Hey, it's just business.
Khashoggi had harshly criticized bin Salman in a series of text messages that he sent to another exiled critic of the royal family shortly before he was murdered.
But bin Salman had no clue that 17 of his loyal hitmen would take it upon themselves to off Khashoggi for him.
I believe Gina Haspel will have a lot to tell the lawmakers.
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