'Was there a bone saw?' How Trump helped the Saudis whitewash the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
In early October 2018, just a few days after Jamal Khashoggi had disappeared inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, White House officials first saw the TV footage that stopped them in their tracks. A supposed Khashoggi look-alike — a heavy-set man wearing the journalist’s clothes and glasses — could be seen walking out of the consulate as though he didn’t have a care in the world. Kirsten Fontenrose, then the director of Gulf affairs at the National Security Council, suspected right away what this was: a scene clumsily crafted to cover up ...
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