the woman who was “helping” to write his columns - Maggie Mitchell Salem - worked for Madeleine Albright and Martin Indyk. enough said:
Qatar Foundation International: Maggie Mitchell Salem
As founding Executive Director, Maggie has championed K-12 Arabic language and Arab culture education since 2009...
Prior to joining QFI, Maggie was Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), a leading democracy and governance NGO. While there she implemented innovative programs in Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Yemen. Prior to IFES, Maggie worked as an independent communications consultant to leading U.S., European and Middle Eastern companies, nongovernmental organizations and academic groups. She also served as director of communications and external relations at the Middle East Institute.
Maggie’s career began as a foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department where she served as a special assistant to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and as a staff assistant to Ambassador Martin S. Indyk at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel. She spent two years at the US Consulate in Mumbai, India.
Maggie completed coursework for a master’s degree in contemporary Arab studies at Georgetown University and holds bachelor’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University in political science and psychology. Additionally, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Damascus, Syria from 1990-92.
https://www.qfi.org/about-qfi/our-team/staff/maggie-mitchell-salem/
this has some of the SSG material. read to work it out as it’s badly put together:
26 Dec: RedState: Washington Post Hints What Others Have Known: Jamal Khashoggi Was a Paid Qatari Intelligence Asset
by streiff
On Oct. 3, one day after Khashoggi’s death, while his fate remained uncertain, his researcher contacted The Post to say that he had a draft of a column that Khashoggi had begun writing before his disappearance. It was published two weeks later. [The likelihood that Khashoggi’s last column was ghostwritten to take advantage of his disappearance by making him appear to be an Arabian Thomas Jefferson appraoches certainty.]...
The Post’s pre-Christmas release of this information is almost certainly in an effort to get ahead of a story that another outlet is pursuing, and frame some rather explosive revelations in the least damaging way...
The Post’s pre-Christmas release of this information is almost certainly in an effort to get ahead of a story that another outlet is pursuing, and frame some rather explosive revelations in the least damaging way...
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/12/26/washington-post-hints-others-known-jamal-khashoggi-paid-qatari-intelligence-asset/