Friction Grows Between Admin, Congress About Writer's Disappearance

[DonViejo]

By DEB RIECHMANN and Jonathan Lemire

October 12, 2018 7:05 am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sword dancers. Gleaming palaces. Military jets streaming red, white and blue trails.


President Donald Trump soaked up the grandeur of Saudi Arabia on his first foreign stop as president last year and envisioned huge benefits for the United States in building closer ties with the repressive and oil-rich desert kingdom.

Now, the White House relationship with Riyadh is imperiled over the mysterious disappearance of a Saudi writer, and the situation is creating friction between the Trump administration and members of Congress demanding to know if the columnist for The Washington Post was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey.

Trump said he has talked to officials at the highest level of the kingdom and is “demanding everything” to explain how Jamal Khashoggi, an activist who had been critical of Saudi leaders, vanished after he walked into the consulate in Istanbul to get documents he needed to get married.

Turkish authorities claim Khashoggi, who resided in the United States, was killed by members of an elite Saudi “assassination squad.” The kingdom describes the allegation as “baseless.” But if Saudi Arabia is found to be complicit in his disappearance or death, the warm U.S.-Saudi relationship — and even hopes for Middle East peace — could be upended.

Trump has backed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambitious campaign to modernize the conservative kingdom and its economy. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who exchanges phone and text messages with the young crown prince, was instrumental in last year’s deal to sell $110 billion in U.S. weapons to the kingdom.

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[Achilleaze]

1. Do I look like a lying republican sleazebag?

[duforsure]

2. trump will again excuse another murder away

From his friend the Saudi Prince who murders people, again like putin does. The GOP Congress wasn't bought off by the Saudi's yet, so they'll balk at doing nothing to them for this now. Like they did involving russia and putin until they too were compromised, and then turn a blind eye to these criminals murdering people too. .

[GoCubsGo]

3. I hope Congress will look into how much ouf our intelligence Jared sold to the Saudis.

And, how much he and his father-in-law are selling to other countries.

[PearliePoo2]

4. The Brits are reporting that Jared carried a list gleaned from intelligence agencies

detailing the enemies of the Crown Prince to give to him.
A little payback for the loans that bailed him out perhaps? Blood money Jared?

A Democratic House will investigate this shit. Kushner and others must rot in prison.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. He Had To Sell Our Intelligence

He had none of his own to sell!

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Well, MBS DID let JFP* fondle his glowing orb...

* Jerkoff Fake President