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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes all it took was Jared passing list of names to MSB. Good people on both side amirite?[/quote]

Why do you repeat stuff you read somewhere without thinking?

Why would Jared need to pass Khashoggi's name to MSB? Do you think MSB doesn't know who Khashoggi is? The man ate and drank from the hands of the Al-Saud for decades.  He wrote and published openly.  Anything that was to be known about Khashoggi's public activities, was already known to MBS.  In fact, MBS probably knows way more about Khashoggi than Kushner ever did.  So why on earth would Kushner need to pass a list with his name on it to MBS? What could Kushner know about Khashoggi that MBS did not? Don't be ridiculous.

There is, however, one possibility that Kushner could have passed something on to MBS, but that something would have had to describe the less public activities of late Mr. Khashoggi.  That something would have had to show that the WP gig was just a distraction, and that the main occupation of Mr Khashoggi in the U.S. had to do less with writing and more with something clandestine.

Don't take my word for it. Here is Juliette Kayyem, hardly a Trump apologist, opining to Vanity Fair:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/cia-saudi-arabia-khashoggi

Yet the fallout from Khashoggi’s murder is likely to be felt more immediately, and most acutely, in the shadows where the U.S. develops key intelligence sources. “Someone who is essentially a U.S. citizen (UMMM...SO NOT) has been killed, and the Trump administration, until the last 24 hours, has been excusing the Saudis,” Kayyem says. “So imagine you’re a Syrian [b]asset [/b]who knows something about ISIS, and you are being [b]managed by U.S. intelligence.[/b] You are at incredible risk in doing this. The intelligence community makes a lot of representations that should you get into trouble, the United States will be there for you. I don’t think that holds anymore. And that’s enormously destructive.”

Now why would Kayyem make that jump and draw a parallel between a journalist, whose loyalty is to no one, and an intelligence asset, bought and paid for, and owed protection? Why?

Say it.  Own it. Khashoggi could have been an asset. May have been an asset.  Stop that journalist talk business.

Think about it.  Here is a guy who spent years in the bosom of Al-Saud, who was a key adviser for years to the chief of freaking Saudi intelligence, and now he's on the outs and moved to the U.S.  What are the chances that CIA didn't contact him? I mean do you really think he was off their radar?

Think.  Put two and two together already.[/quote]

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