{"id":10133,"date":"2018-12-05T05:28:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T05:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/khashoggi-murder-saudi-crown-prince-crazy-says-us-senator\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T11:20:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T11:20:30","slug":"us-senators-condemn-saudi-crown-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/us-senators-condemn-saudi-crown-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senators Condemn Saudi Crown Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US senate has wasted no time in denouncing as fabrication Saudi Arabia&#8217;s continuing stance that the Crown Prince was not complicit in the Murder of journalist Jamal\u00a0Khashoggi.\u00a0 This followed a briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the most vociferous was South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham who\u00a0used superlatives such as<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">s &#8220;a wrecking ball&#8221;, &#8220;crazy&#8221; and &#8220;dangerous&#8221; when\u00a0 describing the\u00a0Saudi Royal. Regarding the evidence he is quoted as saying<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;There is not a smoking gun &#8211; there is a smoking saw,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is already planning to vote on a proposal to end US military support to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, although the currently Republican controlled House of Representatives would undoubtedly block any such move, however this public condemnation will make life uncomfortable for the Saudi administration and will of course be hugely embarrassing to Donald Trump who continues to support them despite this being a blatant violation of international law.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut summed the mood quite nicely with the tweet below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">At some point Washington needs to have a good hard talk about the over-classification of information.<\/p>\n<p>Not everything needs to be secret.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, if our government knows that Saudi leaders were involved in the murder of a U.S. resident, why shouldn\u2019t the public know this?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisMurphyCT\/status\/1069961859246317570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">4 December 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US senate has wasted no time in denouncing as fabrication Saudi Arabia&#8217;s continuing stance that the Crown Prince was not complicit in the Murder of journalist Jamal\u00a0Khashoggi.\u00a0 This followed a briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel on Tuesday. Amongst the most vociferous was South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham who\u00a0used superlatives such as\u00a0as &#8220;a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-us-canada-news","tag-jamal-khashoggi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10139,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions\/10139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}