CNN anchor Jake Tapper laid into President Joe Biden on Sunday morning, lambasting him for allowing Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/politics/saudi-crown-prince-immunity-state-department-jamal-khashoggi/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim immunity</a> in the murder of The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Tapper concluded his Sunday broadcast of &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with a monologue addressing the fact that the Biden administration had determined that — under international law — the crown prince has immunity in the 2018 murder, which Biden has said the prince ordered.
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A Biden administration court filing states the office held by Saudi Arabia&#39;s crown prince shields him from a lawsuit filed by the fiancée of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi. CNN&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> questions President Biden&#39;s previous pledge to address the killing. <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSotu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNNSotu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/cPHygn6ZZc">pic.twitter.com/cPHygn6ZZc</a>
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&#8220;A few weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-saudi-relations-biden-mbs-animosity-11666623661" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that MBS &#8216;mocks President Biden in private, making fun of the 79-year-old’s gaffes and questioning his mental acuity,&#8217; according to people inside the Saudi government. Nothing gets leaked by the Saudi government to The Wall Street Journal without MBS signing off on it, President Biden,&#8221; Tapper began.
&#8220;What are you — what are we — getting in exchange for letting this thug get away with murder, Mr. President?&#8221; Tapper asked. &#8220;Other than the stink of complicity?&#8221;
The Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan criticized Biden when the news was first reported, accusing the president of effectively granting bin Salman a &#8220;license to kill&#8221; in a blistering statement published Friday.
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New statement from Washington Post Publisher Fred Ryan <a href="https://t.co/D0Cbt6Cpg2">pic.twitter.com/D0Cbt6Cpg2</a>
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&#8220;In granting legal immunity to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Biden is failing to uphold America’s most cherished values. He is granting a license to kill to one of the world’s most egregious human-rights abusers who is responsible for the cold-blooded murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist,&#8221; <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/a-license-to-kill-washington-post-shreds-biden-over-immunity-for-saudi-crown-prince-in-khashoggi-hit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ryan wrote</a>.
Ryan went on to note that King Salman had named his son — the crown prince — prime minister in an effort to use international law to shield him from the consequences of his actions.
&#8220;By going along with this scheme, President Biden is turning his back on fundamental principles of press freedom and equality. The American people – and those wronged by MBS in Saudi Arabia and around the world – deserve better,&#8221; he concluded.
According to a Justice Department <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/politics/saudi-crown-prince-immunity-state-department-jamal-khashoggi/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filing</a> referencing a lawsuit brought by Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, &#8220;Mohammed bin Salman, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is the sitting head of government and, accordingly, is immune from this suit.&#8221;

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s administration</a> moved to shield <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/saudi-arabia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saudi Arabia’s</a> Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from a lawsuit on Thursday over his involvement in the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Biden administration said that MBS’ status holding a high office &#8220;allows immunity&#8221; in response to a lawsuit filed by Khashoggi&#8217;s fiancée and by the rights group he founded, Democracy for the Arab World Now.
&#8220;The State Department recognizes and allows the immunity of Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman as a sitting head of government of a foreign state,&#8221; said Richard C. Visek, Acting Legal Adviser, United States Department of State, in a letter.
&#8220;Under common law principles of immunity articulated by the Executive Branch in the exercise of its Constitutional authority over foreign affairs and informed by customary international law, Prime Minister bin Salman as a sitting head of government is immune while in office from the jurisdiction of the United States District Court in this suit,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;In making this immunity determination, the Department of State takes no view on the merits of the present suit and reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of the heinous murder of Jamal Khashoggi.&#8221;
The letter concluded by requesting that the U.S. Department of Justice &#8220;submit a suggestion of immunity to the district court.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Biden administration suggests immunity for MBS in DAWN &amp; Cengiz lawsuit for murder of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JamalKhashoggi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JamalKhashoggi</a>: 
breaking promise for accountability, Biden guarantees MBS impunity. <a href="https://t.co/72n3dV53Gx">pic.twitter.com/72n3dV53Gx</a>
&mdash; Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahleah1/status/1593442376063897601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-fearing-saudi-arabia-wont-penalize-mbs-after-he-promised-during-election-that-he-would-hold-saudi-leaders-accountable-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2019 that he wanted to “make [Saudi Arabia] pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are” after U.S. intelligence said in a report that they assessed that MBS “approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.”
Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-he-confronted-saudi-crown-prince-over-murder-top-saudi-official-pushes-back">claimed</a> over the summer that he confronted the Saudi Crown Prince when he visited the country to ask them to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-claimed-trip-to-saudi-arabia-wasnt-about-oil-new-report-suggests-they-lied">increase oil production</a> but Saudi Arabia pushed back on that claim.
Biden claimed during a press conference that he “raised” Khashoggi’s murder “at the top of the meeting, making it clear what I thought of it at the time and what I think of it now.”
“And it was exactly — I was straightforward and direct in discussing it,” he continued. “I made my view crystal clear. I said very straightforwardly: For an American President to be silent on an issue of human rights, is this consistent with — inconsistent with who we are and who I am? I’ll always stand up for our values.”
Biden later claimed that he told MBS that he “thought” MBS was responsible for the murder and that MBS denied those allegations and that MBS indicated all parties that were involved in the murder were brought to justice.
Adel Al-Jubeir, the Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who was in the meeting with Biden and MBS told U.S. journalists that he “didn’t hear” Biden make those remarks to MBS.
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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Saudi Arabia pushed back on Democrat President Joe Biden&#8217;s claim late last week that he confronted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Biden&#8217;s claim comes after he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-laughs-when-asked-about-fist-bumping-mbs-dismisses-remarks-from-murdered-columnists-fiancee">photographed</a> fist-bumping MBS during his visit to the Kingdom last week. Biden previously pledged while running for president that he wanted to treat Saudi Arabia like a &#8220;pariah&#8221; state.
Biden claimed during a press conference on Friday that he &#8220;raised&#8221; Khashoggi&#8217;s murder &#8220;at the top of the meeting, making it clear what I thought of it at the time and what I think of it now.&#8221;
&#8220;And it was exactly — I was straightforward and direct in discussing it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I made my view crystal clear. I said very straightforwardly: For an American President to be silent on an issue of human rights, is this consistent with — inconsistent with who we are and who I am? I’ll always stand up for our values.&#8221;
Biden later claimed that he told MBS that he &#8220;thought&#8221; MBS was responsible for the murder and that MBS denied those allegations and that MBS indicated all parties that were involved in the murder were brought to justice.
Adel Al-Jubeir, the Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who was in the meeting with Biden and MBS told U.S. journalists that he &#8220;didn&#8217;t hear&#8221; Biden make those remarks to MBS.
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I asked <a href="https://twitter.com/AdelAljubeir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AdelAljubeir</a>, who was in the meeting with MBS, whether <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>&#39; characterization of how he accused MBS of being responsible for Khashoggi&#39;s murder was accurate. <a href="https://twitter.com/AdelAljubeir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AdelAljubeir</a> told me, &quot;I didn&#39;t hear that exchange, that particular exchange&#8230;
&mdash; Nick Schifrin (@nickschifrin) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickschifrin/status/1548074239839727622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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MBS <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/16/middleeast/biden-mbs-khashoggi-abu-akleh-intl/index.html">reportedly</a> scolded Biden to his face about actions that he claims that the U.S. was responsible for that were similar to Khashoggi&#8217;s death.
&#8220;These are issues, mistakes that happen in any country, including the U.S.,&#8221; Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the Saudi foreign minister, told CNN. &#8220;The Crown Prince pointed out that the US has made its own mistakes and has taken the necessary action to hold those responsible accountable and address these mistakes just as the kingdom has.&#8221;
Biden responded to the claims out of Saudi Arabia by claiming that they were lying. When pressed on the matter, Biden got snippy with reporters.
&#8220;Why don’t you guys talk about something that matters?&#8221; Biden asked. &#8220;I’m happy to answer a question that matters.&#8221;
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President Biden, returning to WH, says Saudi FM not telling truth
Biden then chided reporter for asking about MBS fist bump, telling press to &#39;talk about something that matters&#39;
He proceeded to say he&#39;s &#39;hoping&#39; inflation will go down and &#39;working on&#39; freeing pot inmates <a href="https://t.co/NRl6ccmgRI">https://t.co/NRl6ccmgRI</a> <a href="https://t.co/xEUHDHu4MS">pic.twitter.com/xEUHDHu4MS</a>
&mdash; Steven Nelson (@stevennelson10) <a href="https://twitter.com/stevennelson10/status/1548524145322999819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Democrat President Joe Biden laughed on Friday when he was pressed during a press conference about him fist-bumping <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/saudi-arabia">Saudi</a> Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after Biden previously said that he wanted to treat Saudi Arabia as a &#8220;pariah&#8221; state.
Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-fearing-saudi-arabia-wont-penalize-mbs-after-he-promised-during-election-that-he-would-hold-saudi-leaders-accountable-reports">said</a> in 2019 that he wanted to “make [Saudi Arabia] pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are” after U.S. intelligence said in report that they assessed that MBS &#8220;approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re coming under a lot of fire for your fist bump with the crown prince,&#8221; a reporter said to Biden at a press conference.
Biden immediately started laughing.
&#8220;I just want to give you a chance to respond to that,&#8221; the reporter continued, &#8220;but also how can you be sure that another incident, another murder like Jamal Khashoggi, won&#8217;t happen again?&#8221;
&#8220;God love you. What a silly question,&#8221; Biden answered. &#8220;How could I possibly be sure of any of that?&#8221;
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&quot;You&#39;re coming under a lot of fire for your fist bump with the [Saudi] crown prince.&quot;
BIDEN: *laughs*
&quot;How can you be sure that another murder&#8230;won&#39;t happen again?&quot;
BIDEN: &quot;What a silly question.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/UqlmMDvFqG">pic.twitter.com/UqlmMDvFqG</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1548033901666258944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A different reporter asked about a tweet from Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, in which she shared a mock up tweet of what Jamal would say if he was still alive.
&#8220;What Jamal Khashoggi would tweet today,&#8221; Cengiz wrote in a tweet that featured a screenshot of the mockup tweet, which stated: &#8220;Hey @POTUS, Is this the accountability you promised for my murder? The blood of MBS&#8217;s next victim is on your hands.&#8221;
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What Jamal Khashoggi would tweet today: <a href="https://t.co/Gv4Up7TLgd">pic.twitter.com/Gv4Up7TLgd</a>
&mdash; Hatice Cengiz / خديجة (@mercan_resifi) <a href="https://twitter.com/mercan_resifi/status/1547991155459076103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“I’m sorry she feels that way,&#8221; Biden said in responded to the tweet.
&#8220;I was straightforward back then, I was straightforward today,&#8221; Biden claimed. &#8220;This is a meeting, what I, I didn’t come here to meet the crown prince. I came here to meet the GCC, the nine nations, to deal with the security and the needs of the free world, particularly the United States, and not leave a vacuum here, which was happening as it has in other parts of the world.&#8221;
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BREAKING: On tweet from Jamal Khashoggi&#39;s fiancée criticizing him over first bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Pres. Biden says, &quot;I&#39;m sorry she feels that way. I was straightforward back then, I was straightforward today.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BBMNDjLc7W">https://t.co/BBMNDjLc7W</a> <a href="https://t.co/Vg6e3GPxo2">pic.twitter.com/Vg6e3GPxo2</a>
&mdash; ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1548035479659954176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Washington Post slammed Biden Friday afternoon for the fist bump, calling it &#8220;shameful.&#8221;
“The fist bump between President Biden and Mohammed bin Salman was worse than a handshake– it was shameful,” The Washington Post Publisher and CEO Fred Ryan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-issues-statement-about-biden-fist-bumping-saudi-crown-prince">said</a> in a statement. “It projected a level of intimacy and comfort that delivers to MBS the unwarranted redemption he has been desperately seeking.”
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Biden Laughs When Asked About Fist Bumping MBS, Dismisses Remarks From Murdered Columnist’s Fiancée

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> has arrived in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/saudi-arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> a “much diminished president,” the Kingdom’s former spy chief told CNBC Friday.
Biden, buffeted by a likely looming recession and skyrocketing fuel prices, is in Jeddah to try to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/adam-schiff-rips-biden-for-fist-bumping-saudi-crown-prince">persuade the Kingdom</a> to increase oil production. But Biden’s past condemnation of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record and disdain for fossil fuels could leave him little leverage in a sitdown with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to Prince Turki Al-Faisal.
“As an example, on energy issues, he came in with a policy to stop completely fossil fuel usage not only in the United States, but worldwide, and now he is finding himself having to rely on fossil fuels as a means of meeting the energy shortage that has come about, not only because of the Ukraine war but also because of U.S. policy itself that shut down pipelines and stopped issuing &#8230; discovery of oil on U.S. soil,” the prince, who was head of the Kingdom’s intelligence service from 1979 to 2001, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/15/biden-arrives-in-saudi-arabia-much-diminished-president-prince-turki.html">told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble</a>.
American officials have directed blame for the grisly 2018 murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the crown prince. Khashoggi, a harsh critic of the Kingdom’s rulers, was lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, killed, and cut up with a bone saw, according to reports. Biden vowed to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” while he was campaigning for president but now finds himself going hat in hand.
“So, what I would say is, any visitor and not just the American president who has complaints about Saudi issues like human rights and so on, please get off your high horse,” Prince Turki said.
Biden also hopes to thaw perennially strained relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority while on the trip, and on Friday pledged $100 million to support Palestinian hospitals in Jerusalem. And Israel wants a U.S. commitment to getting tough on Tehran if it continues to pursue nuclear weapons.
It all comes as Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/many-americans-think-neither-trump-nor-biden-should-run-in-2024-polls-find">approval rating</a> back home has hit historic lows, raising questions about whether he has the political muscle to drive an ambitious foreign policy agenda.
“The deck is stacked against him,” Prince Turki said.

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Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud said on Thursday that he would vote to reject Elon Musk&#8217;s offer to buy the company, which then triggered a fiery response from Musk.
“I don’t believe that the proposed offer by @elonmusk ($54.20) comes close to the intrinsic value of @Twitter given its growth prospects,” the Saudi prince tweeted. “Being one of the largest &amp; long-term shareholders of Twitter, @Kingdom_KHC &amp; I reject this offer.”
Musk responded to the tweet from the Saudi prince after he finished giving a TED Talk interview where he revealed that there was a &#8220;plan B&#8221; in place if Twitter rejected his offer to buy the company.
&#8220;Interesting. Just two questions, if I may,&#8221; Musk responded. &#8220;How much of Twitter does the Kingdom own, directly &amp; indirectly? What are the Kingdom’s views on journalistic freedom of speech?&#8221;
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Interesting. Just two questions, if I may. 
How much of Twitter does the Kingdom own, directly &amp; indirectly?
What are the Kingdom’s views on journalistic freedom of speech?
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Musk&#8217;s tweet appears to take a shot at the Kingdom after U.S. intelligence stated in a report last year that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/the-report-on-jamal-khashoggi-killing/ddc9578e0994f690/full.pdf">approved</a> the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Golfing legend Phil Mickelson talks a lot, usually giving the media some tasty soundbites. 
But this time, Lefty’s comments have him in very hot water. Last week, Mickelson’s comments to Alan Shipnuck of the Fire Pit Collective got everyone in a tizzy. 
Mickelson was discussing the new Saudi Golf League on a phone call with Shipnuck in November, which will rival the PGA Tour. Mickelson has been rumored to be one of the players the Saudi League is going after, to which Mickelson responded by saying it gave him “leverage” over the PGA Tour. 
“They’re scary motherf***ers to get involved with,” Mickelson <a href="https://firepitcollective.com/the-truth-about-phil-and-saudi-arabia/">said</a>. “We know they killed [Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates. They’ve been able to get by with manipulative, coercive, strong-arm tactics because we, the players, had no recourse.”
“As nice a guy as [PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan] comes across as, unless you have leverage, he won’t do what’s right,” he continued. “And the Saudi money has finally given us that leverage. I’m not sure I even want [the SGL] to succeed, but just the idea of it is allowing us to get things done with the [PGA] Tour.”
His comments caused a handful of PGA Tour players to come out against the league, with four-time major champion Rory Mcllroy calling Mickelson&#8217;s comments “ignorant.” 
“I don’t want to kick someone while he’s down obviously, but I thought they were naïve, selfish, egotistical, ignorant,” McIlroy <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/02/21/rory-mcilroy-blasts-phil-mickelson-for-saudi-golf-league-support/">told</a> reporters at the Genesis Invitational. “A lot of words to describe that interaction he had with Shipnuck. It was just very surprising and disappointing, sad. I’m sure he’s sitting at home sort of rethinking his position and where he goes from here.”
On Tuesday, Mickelson apologized for his comments, but it was too little too late, as longtime sponsor KPMG cut ties with the six-time major winner. 
“KPMG U.S. and Phil Mickelson have mutually agreed to end our sponsorship effective immediately. We wish him the best,” the company <a href="https://www.golfchannel.com/news/kpmg-says-company-and-phil-mickelson-mutually-agree-end-partnership">said</a> in a statement.
In his apology, Mickelson indicated that he would be taking some time away from the game of golf. 
&#8220;Although it doesn&#8217;t look this way now given my recent comments, my actions throughout this process have always been with the best interests of golf, my peers, sponsors and fans,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilMickelson/status/1496228830113058816?cxt=HHwWgMCymbKM1sMpAAAA">Mickelson wrote</a>. &#8220;There is the problem of off-the-record comments being shared out of context and without my consent, but the bigger issue is that I used words that do not reflect my true feelings or intentions.&#8221;
&#8220;It was reckless, I offended people, and I am deeply sorry for my choice of words,” he continued. “I&#8217;m beyond disappointed and will make every effort to self-reflect and learn from this.&#8221;
“The past 10 years I have felt the pressure and stress slowly affecting me at a deeper level,” Mickelson added. “I know I have not been my best and desperately need some time away to prioritize the ones I love most and work on being the man I want to be.”
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A Statement from Phil Mickelson <a href="https://t.co/2saaXIxhpu">pic.twitter.com/2saaXIxhpu</a>
&mdash; Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilMickelson/status/1496228830113058816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Shipnuck has <a href="https://firepitcollective.com/askalan-mickelson-edition/">disputed</a> Mickelson&#8217;s claim that his comments were off-the-record. 
Monahan — the PGA Tour commissioner — has threatened to ban any player who joins the Saudi League for life from the PGA Tour. The league is backed by golfing great Greg Norman, and has reportedly reached out to most of the PGA Tour’s biggest names about making the jump.
This article has been updated to include pushback to Mickelson&#8217;s claims.
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On Sunday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki appeared on <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/28/politics/saudi-arabia-sanctions-khashoggi-jen-psaki-cnntv/index.html">CNN&#8217;s State of the Union</a> and was pressed on the Biden administration&#8217;s actions towards Saudi Arabia in light of recent revelations regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/jamal-khashoggi-murder-us-intelligence-report/index.html">CNN</a>, the Biden administration released a declassified intelligence report on Friday that detailed the murder of Khashoggi and the direct correlation between the crown prince and the killing.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/jamal-khashoggi-murder-us-intelligence-report/index.html">CNN</a> reported:
<blockquote>The report from the director of national intelligence says the crown prince, known as MBS, directly approved the killing of Khashoggi. But while a sanctions list from the Treasury Department listed a former deputy intelligence chief and the Saudi Royal Guard’s rapid intervention force, the crown prince wasn&#8217;t listed.  </blockquote>
On Sunday, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/28/politics/saudi-arabia-sanctions-khashoggi-jen-psaki-cnntv/index.html">CNN</a> host Dana Bash explained the report&#8217;s findings of MBS&#8217;s responsibility for the murder of the journalist. She then played a clip of candidate Joe Biden on the campaign trail at a debate in 2020.
He responded to a question about whether or not he would punish senior Saudi leaders, saying, &#8220;Yes&#8230;I would make it very clear we were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them. We were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are&#8230;They have to be held accountable.&#8221;
Bash pressed Psaki on Biden&#8217;s actions since becoming president, saying that he has not imposed a travel ban, asset freeze, or criminal charges. Most importantly, the host added, Biden has not placed any &#8220;sanctions directly on the crown prince himself.&#8221; Bash asked Psaki, &#8220;Why not?&#8221;
Psaki said that the administration has been &#8220;crystal clear at every level from the president on down&#8221; since the first day, saying that they are going to &#8220;recalibrate this relationship and turn the page from the last four years.&#8221;
Psaki listed ways that the administration plans to do so, including &#8220;ending our support for the war in Yemen, doing more to address the humanitarian crisis, and ensuring that we are holding to account the actions, the human rights abuses of this government, by word and by action.&#8221;
Bash asked if punishing the people underneath the crown prince is &#8220;like punishing the hit man and not the mob boss who actually put out the hit?&#8221;
Psaki answered, &#8220;Well, first, Dana, historically, and even in recent history, Democratic and Republican administrations, there have not been sanctions put in place for the leaders of foreign governments where we have diplomatic relations and even where we don&#8217;t have diplomatic relations.&#8221;
&#8220;And we believe there is more effective ways to make sure this doesn&#8217;t happen again and to also be able to leave room to work with the Saudis on areas where there is mutual agreement, where there is interests, national interests, for the United States. That is what diplomacy looks like. That is what the complicated global engagement looks like,&#8221; Psaki continued.
Bash pressed Psaki later on, saying, &#8220;you say hold them accountable, and it just doesn&#8217;t look like that when it comes to the notion of justice.&#8221; Bash asked if Psaki felt that justice has been done in this specific situation.
Psaki answered, &#8220;Well, this is a horrific crime, and the president has said that himself. I will reiterate that here today.&#8221;
&#8220;One of the reasons the State Department put in place what we&#8217;re calling the Khashoggi rule is because we believe that anyone who threatens journalists, who threatens dissidents should be held to account and shouldn&#8217;t — and should have their — potentially have their travel visas revoked. That&#8217;s a global issue and one we took action on, on Friday,&#8221; Psaki continued.
Psaki added that &#8220;it needs to be clear that our relationship with Saudi Arabia is one that is in the interest of the United States to maintain, while still being clear it will be recalibrated. We are going to hold them accountable for human rights abuses, and we are going to take actions, including the actions announced by the State Department and the Treasury Department on Friday.&#8221;
On Saturday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-fearing-saudi-arabia-wont-penalize-mbs-after-he-promised-during-election-that-he-would-hold-saudi-leaders-accountable-reports">The Daily Wire</a> reported &#8220;Biden would not punish MBS because he was &#8216;fearing&#8217; what the consequences would be if he did so.&#8221;
A full transcript of CNN&#8217;s State of the Union interview can be found <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2102/28/sotu.01.html">here</a>.

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Psaki Pressed On Holding Saudi Arabia Accountable For Murder Of Journalist

Jen Psaki

How many journalists could $5.2 million fund? That&#8217;s one of the biggest questions surrounding The Washington Post&#8217;s decision to spend that much money on a Super Bowl ad talking about how important journalism is today.
The Post conveniently leaves out all the stories it has completely bungled over the past two years, like the story about Russia <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/01/fake-news-and-how-the-washington-post-rewrote-its-story-on-russian-hacking-of-the-power-grid/#2cd2e907291e">allegedly invading the U.S. electric grid</a> or the claim that <a href="https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/12/07/washington-post-appends-editors-note-russian-propaganda-story/">hundreds of websites published Russian propaganda</a> or the claim that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/20/it-was-getting-ugly-native-american-drummer-speaks-maga-hat-wearing-teens-who-surrounded-him/?utm_term=.4da5067c5673">Catholic school teens harassed a Native American man</a> or the breathless coverage of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43013/washington-post-refused-run-sketchy-sex-assault-ashe-schow">flimsy sex assault accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh</a>.
It also leaves out some details about Jamal Khashoggi, who wrote some columns through the Post (via a translator) but is referred to by the outlet as a Washington Post journalist.
The Super Bowl ad includes a short list of journalists who have been killed or, in the case of Austin Tice, kidnapped and missing, while covering the news. Tice was kidnapped in Syria while working as a freelance journalist for several news outlets, including the Post.
Marie Colvin&#8217;s murder was also listed in the ad. Colvin was murdered in Syria in 2012 while reporting on the civil war there.
Both Tice and Colvin were American citizens kidnapped or murdered while doing their jobs as journalists. Their stories are tragic and horrifying and show the dangers that journalists face in other countries around the world.
Khashoggi was not killed while reporting a story, nor was he an American citizen. Those things don&#8217;t really matter in the grand scheme of things, but he was included in a list of American citizens who actually died doing their jobs.
It&#8217;s also surprising that the Post would include Khashoggi when it reported on December 22, 2018 that the Saudi National was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/jamal-khashoggis-final-months-an-exile-in-the-long-shadow-of-saudi-arabia/2018/12/21/d6fc68c2-0476-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?utm_term=.05a07cf6c8ca">actually a propagandist for Qatar</a>. Sure, the Post buried this information in an article published three days before Christmas, but there it is:
<blockquote>
Perhaps most problematic for Khashoggi were his connections to an organization funded by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s regional nemesis, Qatar. Text messages between Khashoggi and an executive at Qatar Foundation International show that the executive, Maggie Mitchell Salem, at times shaped the columns he submitted to The Washington Post, proposing topics, drafting material and prodding him to take a harder line against the Saudi government. Khashoggi also appears to have relied on a researcher and translator affiliated with the organization, which promotes Arabic-language education in the United States.
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That&#8217;s 19 paragraphs into the story, but the Post admits its editors did not know about this connection when it ran Khashoggi&#8217;s translated op-eds. Salem said the Qatar Foundation International didn&#8217;t pay Khashoggi or seek to influence him.
&#8220;He and I talked about issues of the day as people who had come together, caring about the same part of the world,&#8221; Salem said. &#8220;Jamal was never an employee, never a consultant, never anything to [the foundation]. Never.&#8221;
Sure. The fact that Khashoggi&#8217;s articles aligned with Qatar&#8217;s values and against its Middle East rival, Saudi Arabia, surely were not the result of one country translating his writing.
Khashoggi was also seeking millions of dollars from the Saudi government to start a think tank, even though he wrote against the Kingdom.
Some on the Left have tried to drag me on Twitter over pointing out Khashoggi&#8217;s Qatar ties, claiming this means I must be fine with his death. I am not. The way he allegedly dies sounds brutal, whether he was a journalist or not. The point here is that the Post&#8217;s ad is supposed to be about journalism and journalists dying while doing their jobs. Including Khashoggi on that list takes away from the brave work of Tice and Colvin, who actually did suffer as journalists.

The Washington Post’s $5 Million Super Bowl Ad About Journalism Left Out Key Details

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The gruesome murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi shredded the idea that Saudi Arabian royalty should be praised for reforming itself. Princes who chop political opponents into little pieces are not nice people. That said, puh-leeze stop it with the adoration of a man who deserves none of it.
Politico ran a gushing headline that read, &#8220;Jamal Khashoggi: The Free Thinker Whose Murder Shook the World.&#8221; Time magazine named him one of &#8220;the Guardians,&#8221; the journalistic muckrakers who became its 2018 Person of the Year.
Time&#8217;s Karl Vick laid on the praise, and thick, writing: &#8220;Khashoggi put his faith in bearing witness. He put it in the field reporting he had done since youth, in the newspaper editorship he was forced out of and in the columns he wrote from lonely exile.&#8221;
In Vick&#8217;s overwrought prose, Khashoggi was a bold and independent fact-finder. &#8220;What irked the kingdom and marked the journalist for death was Khashoggi&#8217;s insistence on coming to that conclusion on his own, tempering it with troubling facts and trusting the public to think for itself,&#8221; Vick wrote. Holy smokes! But it gets even better: &#8220;Such independence is no small thing. It marks the distinction between tyranny and democracy.&#8221;
But wait. &#8230; How independent was Khashoggi? On December 23, The Washington Post acknowledged a &#8220;problematic&#8221; arrangement between Khashoggi and the autocrats of Qatar, a nemesis of Saudi Arabia (and the owners of &#8220;independent&#8221; Al Jazeera). Of course, the Post buried these facts in paragraph 19 on page A-14, in a massive 5,000-word story.
It deserved to be the lede. Text messages between Khashoggi and Maggie Mitchell Salem, an executive at Qatar Foundation International and a former State Department official during the Clinton presidency, show she &#8220;at times shaped the columns he submitted to The Washington Post, proposing topics, drafting material and prodding him to take a harder line against the Saudi government.&#8221; The Post added, &#8220;Khashoggi also appears to have relied on a researcher and translator affiliated with the organization.&#8221;
So Khashoggi was railing against one set of authoritarians &#8230; with the research assistance and &#8220;drafting&#8221; and &#8220;shaping&#8221; of another set. This doesn&#8217;t make his ruthless murder any less heinous. But it ought to curtail all the &#8220;Free Thinker Just Bearing Witness&#8221; rubbish.
The Post claims it was not aware of this little non-independent arrangement. It exploited his death to underline its &#8220;Democracy Dies in Darkness&#8221; promotional campaigns. It ran a full-page ad in December with a picture of Khashoggi and a candle in front of him and the words &#8220;A life is gone. The principles of free expression endure. The Washington Post.&#8221; Now it has been made aware &#8230; and nothing changes.
There&#8217;s nothing like appropriating this victim. In reality, Khashoggi wrote 20 pieces for the Post website from September 2017 to September 2018. The Post published him once in the actual newspaper. It wasn&#8217;t that passionately impressed with his opinions before he was killed.
The Khashoggi exploitation continues. NBC just denounced Netflix for bowing to Saudi pressure and removing an episode (in that country) of Muslim leftist Hasan Minhaj&#8217;s comedy show, &#8220;Patriot Act,&#8221; that criticized the Khashoggi murder. There in the NBC story was Karen Attiah, Khashoggi&#8217;s (Qatar-ignorant) opinion editor at the Post, proclaiming, &#8220;Saudi Arabia right now is acting like a rogue nation, a rogue state that has no respect for the rule of law, for human life and dignity.&#8221;
That sounds like a fair comment &#8212; except being a dictator in the Middle East is not exactly going &#8220;rogue.&#8221; It also sounds very much like the talking points the Qatar Foundation would &#8220;draft&#8221; and &#8220;shape&#8221; for the &#8220;independent&#8221; Post to say, even now.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

BOZELL & GRAHAM: New Details Ruin Khashoggi Hero Story

A new report asserts that Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, may have been a foreign agent working for the government of Qatar in order to change U.S. policy against Saudi Arabia and in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Writing in <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/27/bombshell-khashoggi-foreign-governments-influence-agent/">The Federalist</a>, Jim Hanson, president of Security Studies Group and a former member of U.S. Special Forces, notes that the Post admitted in an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/jamal-khashoggis-final-months-an-exile-in-the-long-shadow-of-saudi-arabia/2018/12/21/d6fc68c2-0476-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?utm_term=.673fb75e1f77">article</a> on December 21 that an executive at Qatar Foundation International worked with Khashoggi to influence Khashoggi&#8217;s columns so they aggressively targeted the Saudi government. The Post wrote, &#8220;Text messages between Khashoggi and an executive at Qatar Foundation International show that the executive, Maggie Mitchell Salem, at times shaped the columns he submitted to The Washington Post, proposing topics, drafting material and prodding him to take a harder line against the Saudi government.&#8221; Hanson notes, &#8220;The Qatar Foundation denies they were paying him to produce the anti-Saudi material.&#8221;
But then Hanson ups the ante considerably as to Khashoggi&#8217;s possible status as a foreign agent, writing:
<blockquote>
But during Security Studies Group research for our report on the information operation after his death, we heard from reliable sources familiar with the investigation that documents showing wire transfers from Qatar were found in his apartment in Turkey. They were immediately put out of reach by Turkish security services, so they did not show the collusion between Khashoggi, Qatar, and Turkey prior to his death. We <a href="https://securitystudies.org/jamal-khashoggi-and-qatar-in-the-echo-chamber/">have published</a> a new, unredacted set of findings about the case. It is damning to Qatar, Turkey, and the Washington Post. Khashoggi may have been operating in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act by doing this on behalf of Qatar.
</blockquote>
Hanson points out Qatar supports the Muslim Brotherhood, which is regarded as a terrorist organization by many Gulf nations; members of Congress have <a href="https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2018/07/11/desantis-hearing-establishes-the-muslim-brotherhood-must-be-designated-as-a-terrorist-organization-the-sooner-the-better/">pushed </a>for naming the group a terrorist organization.
Hanson adds that Turkey and Qatar drove the narrative after the killing of Khashoggi and fed their chosen information to &#8220;major Western English-language journalist outlets.&#8221;
Hanson points out that Qatar is currently flirting more seriously with Russia, Iran, and Turkey, which is inimical to American interests; that Qatar has <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2018/09/30/EXCLUSIVE-Why-the-fight-against-Qatar-s-US-cyber-attacks-is-not-over-yet.html">hacked into the personal information</a> of Americans; that Qatar is friendly with extremist groups including the Taliban in Afghanistan.
In January 2017, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies <a href="https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/defenddemocracy/uploads/documents/11717_Weinberg_Qatar_Report.pdf">delineated</a> Qatar&#8217;s support for terrorist groups:
<blockquote>
The State Department revealed in its 2015 Country Reports on Terrorism that &#8220;entities and individuals within Qatar continue to serve as a source of financial support for terrorist and violent extremist groups, particularly regional al-Qa&#8217;ida affiliates such as the Nusrah Front.&#8221; Qatar has historically also been described by the U.S. as a site for the private financing of other terrorist groups besides Nusra. Al-Qaeda&#8217;s senior leadership is alleged by Washington to have received support from Qatar- based donors, as is al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, al-Qaeda operatives in Iran, and al-Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner to IS.
According to Treasury, the Islamic State&#8217;s &#8220;Amir of suicide bombers&#8221; made arrangements &#8220;to receive approximately $2 million from a Qatar-based ISIL facilitator,&#8221; who enlisted his &#8220;assistance with fundraising efforts in Qatar.&#8221; There is no sign Qatar ever acted against this unnamed financier. Qatar hosts Hamas moneymen under U.S. counterterrorism sanctions and has even directly financed the group. The U.S. has also reported the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba having fundraised in Qatar.
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A previous version of this story identified Jamil Khashoggi as a reporter for The Washington Post. He was a columnist.

EXPLOSIVE: Report Says WaPo Columnist Killed In Saudi Consulate May Have Been Foreign Agent

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On Wednesday, human rights attorney Amal Clooney <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/amal-clooney-slams-donald-trump-at-united-nations-correspondents-association-awards">spoke</a> at the United Nations Correspondents Association Awards. During her speech, Clooney criticized President Trump for his repeated attacks on the press as the &#8220;enemy of the people.&#8221;
Clooney first spoke about Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists who were falsely convicted of &#8220;possessing secret material&#8221; in Myanmar and sentenced to seven years in prison. She added that when a policeman who was a prosecution witness actually testified against the government, he was also imprisoned.
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In locking up these two journalists and a whistle blower, the authorities are, of course, signaling to others what can happen if you dare to tell the truth. The chilling effect is real and it has already been felt, not only in Myanmar, but further afield. And sadly, similar examples abound in autocratic regimes from North Korea to the Philippines to Hungary, Turkey, and Brazil.
The U.S. president has given such regimes a green light, and labeled the press in this country the &#8220;enemy of the people.&#8221; And, of course, two months ago, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into a consulate in Istanbul and was brutally tortured to death. In many of the cases that I have worked on, too, I have seen journalists and opposition figures ruthlessly targeted so that they can no longer criticize leaders or run against them in elections.
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Despite the CIA issuing a &#8220;high confidence&#8221; report alleging that Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) most likely knew about, or directed, the plot to kill Khashoggi, President Trump has pushed back, noting that the report isn&#8217;t conclusive.
In an official <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-donald-j-trump-standing-saudi-arabia/">statement</a> released by the White House, the president said in part:
<blockquote>
The crime against Jamal Khashoggi was a terrible one, and one that our country does not condone. Indeed, we have taken strong action against those already known to have participated in the murder. After great independent research, we now know many details of this horrible crime. We have already sanctioned 17 Saudis known to have been involved in the murder of Mr. Khashoggi, and the disposal of his body.
Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Jamal Khashoggi was an &#8220;enemy of the state&#8221; and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but my decision is in no way based on that &#8211; this is an unacceptable and horrible crime.
King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman vigorously deny any knowledge of the planning or execution of the murder of Mr. Khashoggi. Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event &#8211; maybe he did and maybe he didn&#8217;t! That being said, we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi.
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The president added that our geopolitical relationship with Saudi Arabia is vital for stability in the region, and that the kingdom has invested in the American economy and kept oil prices low.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38798/watch-sen-mitch-mcconnell-calls-khashoggi-murder-frank-camp">reported</a>, 17 individuals have indeed been sanctioned over alleged involvement in Khashoghi&#8217;s murder, &#8220;including high-ranking Saudi government officials Saud Al-Qahtani and Maher Mutreb.&#8221;
While the president has moved to defend the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, several members of his own party are ready to take more severe action. On November 28, the Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38911/senate-votes-resolution-demanding-trump-pull-frank-camp">voted</a> 63-37 in favor of a resolution calling for President Trump to pull United States armed forces out of the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
Prior to the vote, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) stated:
<blockquote>
Intelligence suggests, despite his repeated denials, that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia himself ordered the murder. Saudi Arabia&#8217;s moral depravity has only been made plainer.
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The senator added that Saudi Arabia &#8220;is not an ally that deserves our support or military intervention on its behalf, especially when our own security is not itself on the line.&#8221;
The vote allowed the resolution to be discharged from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and moved to the Senate floor for debate and the addition of amendments. No further action has been taken as of publication.

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