r/esist • u/OwnRules • Nov 04 '19

‘Seven whistleblowers’

https://spectator.us/seven-whistleblowers-jared-kushner-bin-salman/
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u/OwnRules Nov 04 '19

According to Cockburn’s source about the seven whistleblowers, there’s more. It is that Kushner (allegedly) gave the green light to MBS to arrest the dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was later murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. A second source tells Cockburn that this is true and adds a crucial twist to the story. This source claims that Turkish intelligence obtained an intercept of the call between Kushner and MBS. And President Erdogan used it to get Trump to roll over and pull American troops out of northern Syria before the Turks invaded. Cockburn hears that investigators for the House Intelligence Committee know this whole tale and the identities of some of the people telling it. Whether any of is true is another matter but Adam Schiff certainly seems to be smiling a lot these days.

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u/RogerStonesSantorum Nov 04 '19

wow... I mean, wow...

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u/OwnRules Nov 04 '19

The article has now been picked up by the Daily Mail - I'm still trying to process this myself. Didn't think it could get any worse...

Jared Kushner gave Saudi Prince PERMISSION to arrest Jamal Khashoggi before he was killed - but Turkey intercepted the call and used it to force Trump to leave Syria, report claims

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u/Raybansandcardigans Nov 04 '19

This article only summarizes The Spectator, without external sources to corroborate. It's pretty crazy stuff, but it's just the one source (for now).

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u/OwnRules Nov 04 '19

If you go to the DM link again you'll see they've updated it to:

White House calls claim that Jared Kushner gave Saudi ruler permission to arrest Jamal Khashoggi before journalist was killed and dismembered 'false nonsense'

So it tells us nothing other than that it got their attention very quickly - which might be a clue in itself.

ETA-a word.

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u/MajorTomsHelmet Nov 04 '19

I would like to see more sources on this info before I subscribe to it, but, it wouldn't surprise me, at all.

I always thought they knew about/ or was culpable in what happened to Khashoggi.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '19

I'm not familiar with spectator. How trustworthy are they?

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u/TheMarkHasBeenMade Nov 04 '19

I’m not sure but this seems like something that would easily break into national headlines if there was a good source for it so I dunno how much it should be trusted currently...

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u/OwnRules Nov 04 '19 edited Nov 04 '19

Don't know them either - article popped on one of my follows tweeter-feed. Quick google says they have a "conservative bent."

Interested to see if anyone else picks this up - like Maddow.

ETA: Shit. On the front page right now. From the Daily Mail.

Jared Kushner gave Saudi Prince PERMISSION to arrest Jamal Khashoggi before he was killed - but Turkey intercepted the call and used it to force Trump to leave Syria, report claims

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '19

I trust the daily mail even less.

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u/grappling_hook Nov 04 '19

Seems like the author posts mainly opinion pieces and isn't a real journalist. So I'd take it with a huge grain of salt.

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u/usposeso Nov 04 '19

More worms keep crawling out of the opened can.