CIA’s Haspel listened to recording of Saudi writer’s alleged killing

Associated Press ^ | Bradford Betz

[Heistoast48]

Haspel arrived in Turkey Monday to meet with government officials and listen to the purported recording. The report indicated that she was the first U.S. official to have access to evidence since news leaked that Turkey obtained a recording of the killing.

[Heistoast48]

Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official cited by The Post, said the audio recording "puts the ball firmly in Washington's court." He said the report will put pressure on Haspel to answer to Congress for a briefing. It will be pretty hard for her to say no because at a minimum the intelligence committees can ask her to come in secret, but even if it’s a secret session, it will leak fast,” Riedel said.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Reading between the lines here it seems as if the Turks has the Saudi Embassy bugged.

[FreedomPoster]

Why does this “put the ball in our court?”

Turkey and Saudi Arabia both routinely kill their own citizens. We must take actions why, again?

This guy was a Muslim Brotherhood propagandist at least, and likely an operative. Just because he got hired for a few gigs by Jeff Bezos’ blog doesn’t make him an American citizen.

Private admonishment and move on.

[FreedomPoster]

Impossible! Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.

[McGruff]

My BS detector is going off. Trust the Turks?

[Wuli]

One international subversive member of the Muslim Brotherhood dead, so what?

[libertylover]

How do we even know the audio recording is authentic?

[MplsSteve]

“This guy was a Muslim Brotherhood propagandist at least, and likely an operative. Just because he got hired for a few gigs by Jeff Bezos’ blog doesn’t make him an American citizen.”

Exactly!

[lodi90]

Reading between the lines here it seems as if the Turks has the Saudi Embassy bugged.

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Stating the obvious: it seems somebody in SA is trying to get rid of MBS. Talk about palace intrigue. Wow.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It seems as if Muslim-on-Muslim bloodsport is
almost as much fun to watch as Democrat-on-Democrat.

[gibsonguy]

They have recording studios in Turkey no?

[butlerweave]

Something to do the guys watch and his girl friend’s phone

[mewzilla]

I trust the Turks about as much as I trust our CIA.

[dynoman]

I read somewhere a week ago that Turkey said bugs were the source of the audio.

[Shadow44]

I said this once and I’ll say it again, NOBODY CARES!

[Theo]

I thought I had heard that he was wearing an Apple Watch, and that it was transmitting audio to his girlfriend.

[afterhoursarmory]

Just like Syria, why is this any of our business?

[The Sons of Liberty]

Why does this “put the ball in our court?”

I agree. This sort of thing is fairly routine in that part of the world, so why does this guy rate more than a passing mention? And this is precisely why we don't need to take any syrian "refugees" or "refugees" from any of those hellhole countries!

[marron]

The Saudis need a better writer. They keep changing their story. Maybe we need to write the story, coming up with something that connects all the known data points but still exonerating the Crown Prince, so we can all get on with it. And make them swear to it.

Compensate the officers who will be required to take the fall sufficient to make it entirely worth their while.

And compensate the surviving Khashoggi family sufficient for them to shut up and go along with it.

[Pravious]

How do we even know the audio recording is authentic?

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That’s what I was thinking, too.