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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCalls Grow to Release Transcript of 'Highly Disturbing' Trump-MBS Call After Khashoggi Murder
Rep. Eugene Vindmanwho was a White House national security lawyer at the time of the 2019 callsaid it would shock people if they knew what was said.The widow of Jamal Khashoggi on Friday joined Democratic members of Congress in urging President Donald Trump to release the transcript of a phone conversation between the US leader and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman following the journalists 2018 kidnapping and gruesome murder by Saudi operatives.
Speaking outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC flanked by Democratic members of Congress including Reps. Eugene Vindman of Virginia and Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi said she is seeking the lawmakers help to get the contents of the conversation between President Trump and MBS to get the truth.
Speaking outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC flanked by Democratic members of Congress including Reps. Eugene Vindman of Virginia and Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi said she is seeking the lawmakers help to get the contents of the conversation between President Trump and MBS to get the truth.
Vindman urged the declassification and release of what he called a highly disturbing 2019 call between Trump and MBSwho US intelligence agencies say ordered Khashoggis murderthe contents of which the congressman claimed would shock people if they knew what was said.
At the time of the call, Vindman was serving as a lawyer on Trumps National Security Council, where his duties included reviewing presidential communications with foreign leaders.
The Central Intelligence Agency concluded that MBS ordered Khashoggis murder. Saudi officials refuted the CIAs findings. Trump also expressed skepticism at his own intelligence agencys conclusion, which came as the US was selling or seeking to sell billions of dollars worth of arms to Saudi Arabia despite its rampant war crimes in Yemen.
At the time of the call, Vindman was serving as a lawyer on Trumps National Security Council, where his duties included reviewing presidential communications with foreign leaders.
The Central Intelligence Agency concluded that MBS ordered Khashoggis murder. Saudi officials refuted the CIAs findings. Trump also expressed skepticism at his own intelligence agencys conclusion, which came as the US was selling or seeking to sell billions of dollars worth of arms to Saudi Arabia despite its rampant war crimes in Yemen.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-mbs-khashoggi
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Calls Grow to Release Transcript of 'Highly Disturbing' Trump-MBS Call After Khashoggi Murder (Original Post)
Brenda
Nov 22
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LetMyPeopleVote
(173,440 posts)1. This transcript needs to be released
RT Atlanta
(2,669 posts)3. bump for visibility
donnie loves colluding with murderers and - at every effin opportunity - shitting on our country's intelligence agencies
Brenda
(1,907 posts)4. Apparently there isn't a wedding ring involved. nt