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10-18-2018, 10:03 PM
Corker rails against Trump administration's intel 'clampdown' on Khashoggi

The Tennessee's Republican's comments come as the president tells reporters it appears the journalist is dead.

By BURGESS EVERETT
10/18/2018

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker warned the Trump administration on Thursday that its information “clampdown” on the alleged killing of Saudi journalistJamal Khashoggi can’t go on.
The Tennessee Republican said in an interview he sought to view recent U.S. intelligence on Monday and Tuesday regarding Khashoggi’s disappearance and likely murder in Turkey this month but was told by U.S. officials that he could not do so. Corker suggested that the administration’s current opaque position on who may have killed Khashoggi and whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is responsible may be untenable.

“This is going to come to a head in a very short amount of time. This isn’t getting better over time. It seems to me over the next week or so people are going to know more about what happened,” Corker said. “There has been a clampdown on any further intelligence updates to senators … it can’t go on that long, they need to come out and share their views of what happened and share with us.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/18/khashoggi-corker-saudi-arabia-913238





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