Just Factor This In...

Every single news media outlet I have seen over the last week claims the CIA says that Crown Prince Salman ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.

That is the tilt on the narrative.

What all the reports actually specifically say, however, is that 'a reliable source' at the CIA says the CIA has given the White House a 'high confidence' report to the effect that Salman ordered Jamal Khashoggi's killing because there was a phone call made by Salman's brother, to Khashoggi, inviting him to the Saudi Embassy in Turkey.

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Wha-a?

Okay here's some 'insider information' about the SOP (standard operating procedure) of the CIA is when it comes to making analysis officially available to the White House:

These two guys get on really well personally -
Salman stayed at Murdoch's estate in April 2018

The CIA - through its Director - produces at minimum three/four(I'll explain in a moment) report files per 'substantive national issue' - one being a case fact assessment, the next being a 'high confidence'/'best case' report from the adversarial stand-point, and the third being an 'open file' for circulation to the JOINT CHIEFS OF INTEL for their assessments to be inserted as advice to the President - and there may in some special sorts of events, be a 'minority' or 'dissenting view' report. The White House makes conclusions, not the advisers.

FACTUALLY - Jamal Khashoggi is not around, there is no body, and there are no recordings publicly made available of his 'death or killing.' He has been presumed killed and therefore of course, dead. I am not aware of any single instance where a recording or purported recording is available in any public arena, and no one in my circle has any knowledge that such a recording as described in the media even exists - and this includes the Egyptian Military Intelligence to which I have some superficial access, and they are absolutely opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood and if there were any 'brush fires' to do with the Muslim Brotherhood that needed to be watched (like an actual recording) they would circularize all of their assets about the extent of damage.

Any news media report you read with the form of words actually saying: 'the CIA has concluded blah blah blah' is a deliberately false report.

So why are they doing it? Nobody in any official capacity has 'concluded' anything.

The BBC has also been pouring scorn on suggestions that Jamal Khashoggi was even a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and yet over their very own channel in the same few weeks the heads of the Muslim Brotherhood themselves were given air-time eulogizing Khashoggi and extolling what he had done for Saudi dissenters (which is nothing, I might add, in fact; he is a 'power elite' establishment figure).

Here though, is a fact - the oil price has gone down a lot.

The Jamal Khashoggi 'story' that is being spun in the media has got some problems.