Posted on 10/18/2018 2:47:48 PM PDT by jazusamo
Former CIA Director John Brennan suggested Wednesday night that President Trump is conspiring with Saudi leaders to make up a story about journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance. The Saudi journalist was last seen on October 2 walking into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Turkey says the Saudis killed him, but Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud deny the charge. Trump suggested that he has no reason not to believe him and cited our economic relationship.
That left Brennan with this theory.
So theyve been working to concoct a story thats going to stand up to the scrutiny that will be immediately put on it," Brennan said on MSNBC. "How can they claim then that Mohammed bin Salman had no responsibility whatsoever. Is he looking for the scapegoats inside of Saudi Arabia? Has he already taken action against them?"
Still, if U.S. intelligence has damning information about Salman's role in Khashoggi's disappearance, "his story is going to fall apart, Brennan said. That, he said, is why it's so important that the CIA and others brief the House and Senate intelligence committees so that they can "hold the administration's feet to the fire."
Congress is going to be integral in this, Brennan added. "Because if Mr. Trump and others are going to try in fact to gloss over this somehow," lawmakers won't let that fly.
On Twitter, Brennan said the U.S.-Saudi strategic alliance cannot prevent swift justice on the Saudi government.
Brennan has long been an outspoken Trump critic, condemning the president's rhetoric and policymaking decisions every chance he gets.
Earlier this summer, Trump revoked Brennan's security clearance.
I CAN BARELY WAIT FOR BRENNAN’S PERP WALK.
No surprise. Brennan likes the hard-line extreme Muslims, like in Turkey. He doesn’t like the new prince Mohammed who is working to modernize Saudi society and squash fundamentalist Wahhabism.
go tell the Brits, Brennan:
BAE set to brave controversy by attending Saudi Arabia event
Financial Times-17 Oct. 2018
16 Oct: BBC: Simon Jack: BAE Systems will go to the Saudi ball
BAE Systems is one UK firm that will definitely not pull out of next week’s business conclave in Saudi Arabia.
The Kingdom bought a sixth of everything the UK defence contractor sold last year and BAE employs 6,000 people on the ground there.
The rock stars of the business world are shunning the spotlight on Riyadh after Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance at the Saudi embassy at Istanbul.
But the BBC has been told that BAE officials will make the trip...
Therein lies the basis of much of the developed world’s arms industry approach to the vexed question of selling weapons to other countries.
If we don’t sell them, someone else will.
Donald Trump underlined that point this week...
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45882301
should have included this line from Simon Jack’s BBC article:
To be fair to BAE, selling military hardware is not a normal business. It is conducted with the express approval of the UK government...
What makes the above even more interesting, is that Jamal is the nephew of Adnan Khashoggi, the world’s most notorious NGO arms dealer and Jamal occasionally worked for Adnan in the weapons trade.
And I have little doubt that Brennan and Adnan were close during the time that Brennan was a CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia.
Shut up Brennan...
I’m with you on the Brennan perp walk or maybe something more serious, as I stated earlier on the thread a gallows necktie would do wonders for his looks.
The turkey belongs in a federal slammer at the very least.
Said the Iranian puppet.
I happen to know that Brennan is an Iranian double agent.
Rush called this two weeks ago, Brennon just now got the message? He should have his router checked.
And if Trump turns his back on the Saudis, Brennan will claim he is colluding with China and Russia by allowing them to expand their hegemony against us....as they fill the vacuum...
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