WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that there was once no direct proof connecting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi ultimate month in Istanbul.
Pompeo spoke to newshounds after he and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis advised the Senate at the back of closed doors that weakening U.S.-Saudi ties over the killing would harm national security.
“There is not any direct reporting connecting the crown prince to the order to murder Jamal Khashoggi,” Pompeo said.
However, many senators left the briefing announcing differently.
“I don’t assume there’s anybody in the room that doesn’t believe he was once answerable for it,” Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, advised newshounds after the briefing.
“MbS has now not taken ownership of the death,” Corker said, the usage of the short-hand initials for the crown prince.
The CIA has assessed that the crown prince had ordered the Oct. 2 killing of Khashoggi on the Saudi consulate in Istanbul
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he would withhold his vote on any key factor, including a central authority spending bill, till he gets a briefing on the topic from the CIA.
“I am not going to be denied the power to be briefed through the CIA, that we have got oversight of, about whether or not or now not their evaluation supports my belief that this may now not have came about without MbS realizing,” Graham advised newshounds.
Leading Democratic senators said the intelligence they had seen satisfied them of the crown prince’s function in murder of Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist and U.S. resident.
Pompeo spoke to newshounds after he and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis advised the Senate at the back of closed doors that weakening U.S.-Saudi ties over the killing would harm national security.
“There is not any direct reporting connecting the crown prince to the order to murder Jamal Khashoggi,” Pompeo said.
However, many senators left the briefing announcing differently.
“I don’t assume there’s anybody in the room that doesn’t believe he was once answerable for it,” Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, advised newshounds after the briefing.
“MbS has now not taken ownership of the death,” Corker said, the usage of the short-hand initials for the crown prince.
The CIA has assessed that the crown prince had ordered the Oct. 2 killing of Khashoggi on the Saudi consulate in Istanbul
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he would withhold his vote on any key factor, including a central authority spending bill, till he gets a briefing on the topic from the CIA.
“I am not going to be denied the power to be briefed through the CIA, that we have got oversight of, about whether or not or now not their evaluation supports my belief that this may now not have came about without MbS realizing,” Graham advised newshounds.
Leading Democratic senators said the intelligence they had seen satisfied them of the crown prince’s function in murder of Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist and U.S. resident.
Pompeo says no hard evidence Saudi prince ordered Khashoggi killing
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