Noted: Pompeo dismisses Khashoggi as ‘activist’ whose murder was overblown by media

[cigaretteman]

In a new book, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo derides the idea that Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributing columnist who was brutally murdered in 2018, was a journalist. Pompeo sympathizes instead with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who was found to have ordered Khashoggi’s assassination, and defends at length the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia.
The Post’s Amy B Wang writes that in “Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love,” published Tuesday, Pompeo says that Khashoggi did not deserve to die and calls his killing “outrageous, unacceptable, horrific.” However, he then goes on for several more pages mocking the “disproportionate global uproar” over Khashoggi’s death, arguing that Khashoggi was an “activist,” not a journalist, whose death was “hammered” out of proportion by an overly sympathetic media. Per Amy:

“Just as the media spent years trying to drive a wedge between me and President Trump, they spent the ensuing weeks trying to fracture America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia,” Pompeo wrote. “The progressive Left hates MBS, in spite of the fact that he is leading the greatest cultural reform in the kingdom’s history. He will prove to be one of the most important leaders of his time, a truly historic figure on the world stage.”
Khashoggi was killed Oct. 2, 2018, while visiting Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents that would allow him to marry his fiancee, Hatice Cengiz. Saudi agents dismembered Khashoggi’s body inside the consulate, and his remains have never been found.

You can read Amy’s full story here.

 

[THE_DEVIL]

**** Pompeo

 

[tarheelbybirth]

**** Pompeo

Subject him to the same treatment as a Saudi activist would get.

 

[mnole03]

Gee, I wonder who will fund his next campaign.