The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the warning process, declined to comment on whether Khashoggi had been contacted.
Administration officials have not commented on the intelligence reports that showed a Saudi plan to lure Khashoggi.
“Though I cannot comment on intelligence matters, I can say definitively the United States had no advance knowledge of [Khashoggi’s] disappearance,” deputy State Department spokesman Robert Palladino told reporters Wednesday. Asked whether the U.S. government would have had a duty to warn Khashoggi if it possessed information that he was in jeopardy, Palladino declined to answer what he called a “hypothetical question.”
Washington Post
[ Did Trump know and approve the murder? Be honest, this would be looked on as a way to be "tough" by Donald. That Khashoggi was a Wa Post reporter was a plus. ]
LiliVonShtupp
“This one has caught the imagination of the world, unfortunately,” Trump told NYT shortly before he left for Montana." Unfortunately. Un-freaking-fortunately??! "We would have looked the other way and swept it all under the rug, but people who find this entire grisly murder are unfortunately paying attention? |
