{"id":39561,"date":"2018-10-22T18:19:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39561"},"modified":"2018-10-22T18:19:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T23:19:12","slug":"jamal-khashoggis-murder-could-drive-congress-to-finally-end-support-for-brutal-saudi-war-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39561","title":{"rendered":"Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Could Drive Congress to Finally End Support For Brutal Saudi War in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JAMAL KHASHOGGI\u2019S MURDER COULD DRIVE CONGRESS TO FINALLY END SUPPORT FOR BRUTAL SAUDI WAR IN YEMEN<\/a><\/h3>\n
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THE SUSPECTED MURDER<\/u> of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia is pushing the U.S. government toward a major internal confrontation over its role in the war in Yemen, one that could have significant consequences for a Saudi-led, U.S.-backed intervention that has exacerbated the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

On Monday, 55 members of Congress, led by Reps. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., wrote to the director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, asking whether the intelligence community knew about a plot to apprehend Khashoggi ahead of time, and whether the U.S. government fulfilled its \u201cduty to warn\u201d him.<\/p>\n

The letter \u2014 the text of which was already made public<\/a> by Khanna and Pocan \u2014 states that the DNI\u2019s answers will inform coming votes on the Yemen war. \u201cWe look forward to your timely response to our inquiry as both the House of Representatives and the Senate consider privileged resolutions this fall \u2026 which invoke Congress\u2019s sole constitutional authority over the offensive use of force to end illegal U.S. military participation with Saudi Arabia in Yemen,\u201d the letter reads. It also promises to \u201cuse the full force of Congressional oversight and investigatory powers\u201d if the Trump administration does not respond.<\/p>\n

The Post reported<\/a> earlier this month that U.S. intelligence had intercepts of Saudi government officials,\u00a0which showed \u201cthat the crown prince ordered an operation to lure \u2026 Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia.\u201d But it is not known whether U.S. officials knew of the threats to harm him, and if they did, whether they took any action to make Khashoggi aware of them as required by a 2015 intelligence community directive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Kevin Dietsch, Pool\/Getty Images JAMAL KHASHOGGI\u2019S MURDER COULD DRIVE CONGRESS TO FINALLY END SUPPORT FOR BRUTAL SAUDI WAR IN YEMEN THE SUSPECTED MURDER of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia is pushing the U.S. government toward a major internal confrontation over its role in the war in Yemen, one that could have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12001,22167,701,5567,827,1796,901],"class_list":["post-39561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alex-emmons","tag-jamal-khashoggi","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-the-intercept","tag-united-states","tag-us-congress","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39562,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions\/39562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}