"Rep. Chris Stewart defended President Donald Trump’s dismissal of CIA findings that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was complicit in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist, noting that America needs relationships with some countries with which it doesn’t always agree.
And, Stewart noted, “journalists disappear” all over the world.
Stewart appeared on CNN on Tuesday not long after a
bipartisan group of senators received a closed-door briefing by CIA
Director Gina Haspel about the killing of Saudi dissident Jamal
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, who was reportedly slain and dismembered inside a Saudi consulate in Turkey.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was a
“wrecking ball” and that “he’s complicit in the murder of Mr. Khashoggi
to the highest level.”
“There’s not a smoking gun — there’s a smoking saw,” Graham said, referencing a bone saw that was apparently used in the consulate to dismember Khashoggi’s body."
