12-06-2018, 11:53 AM
It's encouraging to see Congress beginning to perform its check on the Executive branch as the Democrats prepare to take over the House of Representatives.
Bi-partisan congressional leaders have been briefed by CIA Director Gina Haspel in regards to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
They have put forth a resolution contradicting President Trump's stance and calling for the U.S. to directly denounce MBS personally for his complicity (based on the evidence they've reviewed).
“This resolution — without equivocation — definitively states that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia was complicit in the murder of Mr. Khashoggi and has been a wrecking ball to the region jeopardizing our national security interests on multiple fronts,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said in a statement accompanying the release of the resolution. “It will be up to Saudi Arabia as to how to deal with this matter. But it is up to the United States to firmly stand for who we are and what we believe.”
“You have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion that this was orchestrated and organized by people under the command of MBS and that he was intricately involved in the demise of Mr. Khashoggi,” Graham said following the briefing, referring to Mohammed by his initials. He added that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who briefed senators last week, were at best being “good soldiers” and at worst were “in the pocket of Saudi Arabia” for presenting the evidence of Mohammed’s involvement as inconclusive.
They're also pushing a measure to cut back the U.S. support to the Saudi-led war and humanitarian crisis in Yemen, encouraging the Saudis to stop striking civilians and cutting off much-needed food and aid, and instead work to reach an agreement with the Houthi rebel leaders in the country.
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Bi-partisan congressional leaders have been briefed by CIA Director Gina Haspel in regards to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
They have put forth a resolution contradicting President Trump's stance and calling for the U.S. to directly denounce MBS personally for his complicity (based on the evidence they've reviewed).
“This resolution — without equivocation — definitively states that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia was complicit in the murder of Mr. Khashoggi and has been a wrecking ball to the region jeopardizing our national security interests on multiple fronts,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said in a statement accompanying the release of the resolution. “It will be up to Saudi Arabia as to how to deal with this matter. But it is up to the United States to firmly stand for who we are and what we believe.”
“You have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion that this was orchestrated and organized by people under the command of MBS and that he was intricately involved in the demise of Mr. Khashoggi,” Graham said following the briefing, referring to Mohammed by his initials. He added that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who briefed senators last week, were at best being “good soldiers” and at worst were “in the pocket of Saudi Arabia” for presenting the evidence of Mohammed’s involvement as inconclusive.
They're also pushing a measure to cut back the U.S. support to the Saudi-led war and humanitarian crisis in Yemen, encouraging the Saudis to stop striking civilians and cutting off much-needed food and aid, and instead work to reach an agreement with the Houthi rebel leaders in the country.
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