Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir issued a statement rejecting the CIA’s assessment of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying that everyone in Saudi Arabia knows that the crown prince is totally innocent of the plot.
Jubeir went on to say that everyone should assume the CIA assessment wasn’t correct because it was called an “assessment,” which he believes means it was drawn without any conclusive evidence.
The CIA cited an intercepted phone call and other evidence in having “high confidence” that the crown prince ordered the murder. President Trump also complained that the CIA acted prematurely in making such an assessment.
Trump has long made clear he doesn’t want to blame the crown prince, and praised the Saudi kingdom as a “very good” ally. And while Trump said he doesn’t know for sure that the Saudi king didn’t lie to say his son was innocent, he told him that at least five times, and that would be an awful lot of lying.
There is something utterly slimy about this FM.
wiki:
He obtained a B.A. summa cum laude in political science and economics from the University of North Texas in 1982, and an M.A. in international relations from Georgetown University in 1984.[4] In 2006, he received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of North Texas.[5]
Doesn’t mean squat. Degrees mean nothing if you do not have balanced thinking and character.
It’s really hard to get someone to understand something that they don’t want to know. What’s impossible is to prove a negative, so the FM has once again made a brazen lie: EVERYONE in Saudi Arabia knows for sure the crown prince is totally innocent? At least they won’t say otherwise as long as they don’t want to be cut into convenient pieces.
“Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir issued a statement rejecting the CIA’s assessment of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying that everyone in Saudi Arabia knows that the crown prince is totally innocent of the plot.”
Well. That settles it then. I mean, it’s not like politicians ever lie in service to their masters, is it? Who are you gonna believe, Mr. Jubeir or your own lying eyes, ears, and brain??
Why do these items get reported at all, I wonder. It’s like WH press briefings: nothing factual is exchanged.