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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]It's fun to read how it's all Trump's fault.

The journalist is alive. Sorry.[/quote]

Why are you sorry he is alive? For that matter, what evidence do you have that he is alive? Have we really reached the point that being pro-Trump means that you have to deny any world event that might make him look bad?
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I hate KSA government and Trump as much as anyone. But I think it's ridiculous that some people are trying to hang this on Trump.  A known repressive government has captured a critic of said government (a very recent one) in a third country.  How is this America's fault? What does any of this have to do with Trump? And more broadly, since when does America have any power over what happens in KSA? No American government has really been able to pressure Saudis to do anything. Not big stuff, not little stuff.  For Khashoggi, the man has eaten off the government largess long enough that I see his misfortune as occupational hazard, not martyrdom.  Remember, this is the man who applauded the extermination of government opposition, who cheered on as the opposition cleric was beheaded. Now I'm supposed to grieve for him?[/quote]

Trump had a call with the Saudi's the night before this went down. The US IC knew about the warnings - Trump had to have been briefed. Either Trump is complicit in having known about what was going to happen and didn't warn KSA not to do it, or else he is complicit. The third option is that he did warn KSA and they ignored it. That is HIGHLY unlikely.[/quote]

Er...consider a tiny, very remote possibility that the chatter about Saudi government doing things to one of their own in a third country was simply not important enough to make it to presidential briefing. Besides, what makes you think KSA would listen to what Trump says? [/quote]

Khossagghi was recently living in VA and was very very VERY likely a CIA asset. So yes, the POTUS should care what happens to our intelligence sources. He just sent a signal to all our deep-cover sources that he doesn't care about them.

This weakens American national security. Why is he weak on protecting the homeland?[/quote]

If Khashoggi really was a CIA asset and the Saudis knew, I don't know what it is that you expect them to do with him, send him flowers? I mean any country would look very unkindly on their citizen becoming an asset to foreign intelligence.  In fact, a charge of treason on that is not unwarranted. And maybe the KSA wanted to send a signal to their people - hey, do not become CIA assets![/quote]

+1.  [/quote]

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