A new organization intended to carry out the vision of late Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi is led and staffed by prominent anti-Israel activists, including a controversial lawyer who defended a dozen people allegedly involved in the 9/11 terror attacks.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday released a statement about the importance of standing with Saudi Arabia amid ongoing questions concerning Jamal Khashoggi's death, saying the partnership is vital to pursing "national interests and vigorously contesting countries that wish to do us harm."
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are forcefully denying an ABC News report that cites an anonymous Turkish official claiming Pompeo has listened to an audio recording or viewed a transcript of the recording of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi's alleged murder inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has not reviewed recordings pertaining to the disappearance of a Saudi journalist, a State Department spokeswoman said Thursday night.