Members of the US Congress call for declassification of intelligence report on Khashoggi killing

Washington, (ST) – Members of the US Congress call for declassification of intelligence report on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, stressing that the Trump administration prohibits its publication in order to protect the Saudi regime.

CNN reported that Richard Bohr, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Democratic Senator Mark Warner, a member of the committee, sent a letter to the Trump administration, asking him to also disclose the secrecy of the US intelligence assessment of the person responsible for Khashoggi’s death.

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden also demanded that the American administration be required to disclose the intelligence report and said that it would “be based on a clause of a law issued in 1976 that would allow the Intelligence Committee in which he is a member to remove the report.”

It is noteworthy that Khashoggi was killed on October 2, 2018 at his country’s consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, and the Saudi regime has hatched several contradictory accounts about crime to drive suspicions from it, while the Trump administration worked to protect Saudi regime and its symbols, led by Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salma.

Raghda Sawas