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US Senator Ron Wyden called on the US administration to lift the secrecy of an intelligence report on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, confirming that he would act to reveal information related to this crime under the authority of the Senate.
Reuters quoted Democratic Party lawmaker Wyden as saying that he "will act to compel the CIA chief to publish information about Khashoggi’s murder if the administration does not publish a report on this crime before the end of President Donald Trump's Senate trial as part of his accountability," noting that the goal is to "Defining the names of those who ordered it, who colluded with them, and what was done to prevent the crime."
Widen bases his move on the Senate’s authority to unilaterally declassify US intelligence to push the Trump administration to publish a report on Khashoggi's murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
The report was to be published earlier this month, a deadline that Widen confirmed that the US administration had ignored.
The CIA previously disclosed in 2018 that the Saudi regime’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had sent 11 messages to one of his top aides, Saud Al-Qahtani, who had conducted the killing of Khashoggi in the hours before and after the crime, while the United Nations rapporteur on killing outside The scope of the judiciary and arbitrary execution Agnes Calamard said that the Khashoggi murder was planned and involved officials of the Saudi regime.