What I Learned Over Lunch With the Real Jamal KhashoggiThe American Spectator

What I Learned Over Lunch With the Real Jamal KhashoggiThe American Spectator
"Like all murders, Jamal Khashoggi’s was an evil deed.
Should the United States respond to it with a major disruption in relations with Saudi Arabia?
No — emphatically no.
...I also remember who and what he really was.
He was the scion of one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia and a tremendously privileged member of the Saudi power structure.
In Saudi Arabia he was well known as a sometime writer and editor for newspapers and a television news presenter.
In the rest of the world, it was no secret that he was from time to time one of the closest advisers to the head of the Saudi state intelligence and secret police apparatus. 
...When his patron Alwaleed was incarcerated, Jamal Khashoggi left the country.
He made his way to Washington, D.C., where he had cultivated relationships with mainstream media mandarins.
He arranged to write columns for the Washington Post, criticizing the same harsh and anti-democratic conditions in his home country that he had spent his whole previous career artfully covering up. Khashoggi completely changed his tune, but the only thing that had changed in Saudi Arabia was that Khashoggi’s faction in the Saudi power structure was no longer on top..."
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