Confirming what U.S. intelligence has known, the United Nations has issued a report pointing the finger of blame for journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder directly at Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin "Bone Saw" Salman:
The crown prince of Saudi Arabia should be investigated over the murder of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi because there is “credible evidence” that he and other senior officials are liable for the killing, according to a damning and forensic UN report.
In an excoriating 100-page analysis published on Wednesday of what happened to Khashoggi last October, Agnes Callamard, the UN’s special rapporteur, says the death of the journalist was “an international crime”.
“It is the conclusion of the special rapporteur that Mr Khashoggi has been the victim of a deliberate, premeditated execution, an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible under international human rights law,” she says.Crown Prince Bone Saw, with his business partner in crime Jared "Mr. Ivanka Trump" Kushner and our admiring autocrat- in- waiting Donald "Not Exonerated" Trump backing him, isn't likely to face any increased pressure from this ethics- free regime. Congress, though, has to draw the line with this crew of Saudi thugs. Speaker Pelosi has already indicated that the House will block the Trump regime's arms sale to the Saudis; in the Senate, there are 22 resolutions objecting to the sales, by both Democrats and Republicans. What's uncertain is whether there are votes to override a Trump veto, should any of the measures reach him.
This country has lost its way, most visibly in the way it interacts with foreign despots like Crown Prince Bone Saw. That's a moral currency we'll never recover.
