The CIA concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed, but the younger ruler is there to keep, and so is the cosy US-Saudi relationship, a distinguished CIA whistleblower informed RT.
With sufficient data leaked from the CIA, the NSA, the FBI and the Turkish nationwide intelligence group, Kiriakou says there’s little doubt among the many analysts that it was Mohammed bin Salman (MBS for brief) who had ordered the killing.
The CIA, for its half, concluded with “medium to high confidence” that Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul final October, and was by no means seen once more, was tortured and murdered on orders coming from MBS.
But regardless of media outrage and pressure from some US lawmakers to minimize off weapons gross sales to Riyadh, President Donald Trump is sticking by the embattled Saudi prince, and has forged doubt on the CIA’s conclusions. Former CIA agent and whistleblower Kiriakou believes that US-Saudi relations are unlikely to change any time quickly.
“We’ve got this long so-called ‘special relationship’ with the Saudis,” Kiriakou informed RT. “It really isn’t a ‘special relationship.’ It’s a very simple relationship where we buy Saudi oil and the Saudis buy American weaponry….and the president doesn’t want to upset the boat.”
Within the desert Kingdom, change can also be a mere fantasy. MBS has been touted as a reformer, but has carried out little in follow to change the nation’s medieval authorized system.
“I think the so-called reforms are all fake,” Kiriakou stated. “This is a country that still crucifies people. I have a personal friend who was recently sentenced to 10 years of hard labor for participating in a peaceful pro-democracy demonstration.”