BREAKING NEWS: “Senators Leahy, Menendez, Corker & Graham have triggered the Magnitsky Act over Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance. The Trump administration must determine if Jamal Khasshoggi was a victim of killing, torture or gross violation of human rights. If yes, then automatic sanctions on the Saudis”.
The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered an operation to lure Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia and then detain him, according to U.S. intelligence intercepts of Saudi officials discussing the plan.
The intelligence, described by U.S. officials familiar with it, is another piece of evidence implicating the Saudi regime in Khashoggi’s disappearance last week after he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Turkish officials say that a Saudi security team lay in wait for the journalist and killed him.
Khashoggi was a prominent critic of the Saudi government and Mohammed in particular. Several of Khashoggi’s friends said that over the past four months, senior Saudi officials close to the crown prince had called Khashoggi to offer him protection, and even a high-level job working for the government, if he returned to his home country.
Khashoggi, however, was skeptical of the offers. He told one friend that the Saudi government would never make good on its promises not to harm him.
“He said: ‘Are you kidding? I don’t trust them one bit,’ ” said Khaled Saffuri, an Arab American political activist, recounting a conversation he had with Khashoggi in May, moments after Khashoggi had received a call from Saud al-Qahtani, an adviser to the royal court.
The intelligence pointing to a plan to detain Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia has fueled speculation by officials and analysts in multiple countries that what transpired at the consulate was a backup plan to capture Khashoggi that may have gone wrong.
A former U.S. intelligence official — who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter — noted that the details of the operation, which involved sending two teams totaling 15 men, in two private aircraft arriving and departing Turkey at different times, bore the hallmarks of a “rendition,” in which someone is extralegally removed from one country and deposited for interrogation in another.
But Turkish officials have concluded that whatever the intent of the operation, Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate. Investigators have not found his body, but Turkish officials have released video surveillance footage of Khashoggi entering the consulate on the afternoon of Oct. 2. There is no footage that shows him leaving, they said.
The intelligence about Saudi Arabia’s earlier plans to detain Khashoggi have raised questions about whether the Trump administration should have warned the journalist that he might be in danger.
Intelligence agencies have a “duty to warn” people who might be kidnapped, seriously injured or killed, according to a directive signed in 2015. The obligation applies regardless of whether the person is a U.S. citizen. Khashoggi was a U.S. resident.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1050506403230625792
https://twitter.com/CNNSitRoom/status/1050514114517200896
Great segment on voter suppression
https://twitter.com/kwilli1046/status/1050335448818704384
https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1050548916977106949
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1050508463946850304
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1050263619303337985
https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1050425639260626947
https://twitter.com/ILoveMyWife0007/status/1049114702108905478
https://youtu.be/hZxe7BKYxgI
Straight up, Coontastical Minstrel 👨🎤 show
Don Lemon has all kinds of time today, bitches!
https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1050531202011209733
I’m sure they do have evidence.
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1050528818954477568
Even better, can the scent catch s thuggish, lying, pussy-grabbing, tax-evading, 💰 laundering, racist POS 45?
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1050522719308013568
Check that fucker, with the quickness!
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/dhs-secretary-panics-questioning-kamala-harris-not-detain-children-care/
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1050103715997323271
https://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/1050516547180085248
Watch him shove her out of the way……
https://twitter.com/PassTheSalty/status/1050376584459358208
Clear as glass. That body ain’t 🤥 lying facial cringing too.
https://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/1050514739502219265
https://twitter.com/TheDailyEdge/status/1050511995869507584
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1050512637258358785
What kind of white supremacy ISH is this? RESIGN NOW @BrianKempGA
https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/1050458090657599488
https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/1050490784389193728
GET OUT & VOTE
Cat 4 hurricane, Kavanaugh, A MRUDERED journalist working for the WASHINGTON POST and RUSSIA. And yet 45 wants folks LOOKING@you-MEDIA to film a shit show with a mentally ILL black man, at the WH & KLAN rallies with a bunch of rednecks and bleach-blonde women.
STOP THE MADNESS
https://twitter.com/baratunde/status/1050445892891934720
Did y’all watch Kanye at the White House? OMG! It was pitiful. He was rambling. It made no sense. He’s in need of some serious mental care.
This is the little beach town where Michael made landfall.
https://twitter.com/Sean_Breslin/status/1050406458809114625
Don’t fall for 45’s hate rallies & other sideshow fuckery, folks.
RUSSIA, KAVANAUGH,SCOTUS, GOP UNRAVELING ANY & ALL 20TH CENTURY GAINS IN CIVIL RIGHTS, IMMIGRATION, SOCIAL SAFETY NET, ANY & ALL ECONOMIC GAINS WE’VE MADE UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1050391776580853760
don’t trust teh Republicans, as far as i can throw them
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1050364544994996226
Why would anyone have trouble believing this. They are still beheading people in Saudi Arabia.
IDIOT sitting in the Oval Office. OMG!
https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1050348036889726977
https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1050226175459647488
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1050141373301747712
https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1050171505403981829
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1050123588957851648
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1050416722497458178
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1050403601074540544
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1050405710146822144
From
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/roberts-refers-judicial-misconduct-complaints-against-kavanaugh-to-federal-appeals-court-in-colorado/2018/10/10/34298534-ccc3-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html?utm_term=.786386afa6a6
That may be the case, Judge Roberts, but McConnell and 45 are still trying to pack the courts with POS judges, who will likely blow off the cases, just like the weak, underhanded Sycophants at the FBi
I’m so damn tired of this oppression.
https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/1050408914532134917
Time to kick this Jim Crow, mother fucker to the curb
Word of the Day : October 11, 2018
By and large: adverb BYE-und-LAHRJ
Definition: on the whole : in general
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/by+and+large-2018-10-11?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=b&file=by-and-large_1&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=pron
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1050388614549577733
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1050403739750813697
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1050121300767838209
Yep.
https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1050041723567652864
This is disgusting.
YUCK!
What is that sprinkled on top? I can’t figure if it’s some kind of grated cheese or flaked coconut. At first I thought it might be powdered sugar.
Sad.
It may be flaked coconut. Nasty.
https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/1050380125655769088
Slideshow of hurricane damage, 152 photos right now. I also just saw some film footage of Mexico Beach where the hurricane made landfall. It looks like Puerto Rico. Houses totally demolished,only the slabs remain.
This is absolutely devastating.
https://weather.com/safety/hurricane/news/2018-10-09-hurricane-michael-photos
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1050220650189807616
https://twitter.com/JillDLawrence/status/1049835982021906433
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/1050370505033822210
Great! Now these same female activist need to bound the pavement and get out the VOTE
Voting Rights Become A Flashpoint In Georgia Governor’s Race
ASSOCIATED PRESS • OCT 9, 2018
Marsha Appling-Nunez was showing the college students she teaches how to check online if they’re registered to vote when she made a troubling discovery. Despite being an active Georgia voter who had cast ballots in recent elections, she was no longer registered.
“I was kind of shocked,” said Appling-Nunez, who moved from one Atlanta suburb to another in May and believed she had successfully changed her address on the voter rolls.
“I’ve always voted. I try to not miss any elections, including local ones,” Appling-Nunez said.
She tried re-registering, but with about one month left before a November election that will decide a governor’s race and some competitive U.S. House races, Appling-Nunez’s application is one of over 53,000 sitting on hold with Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office. And unlike Appling-Nunez, many people on that list — which is predominantly black, according to an analysis by The Associated Press — may not even know their voter registration has been held up.
Tuesday is Georgia’s deadline to register and be eligible to vote in the November General Election.
Kemp, who’s also the Republican candidate for governor, is in charge of elections and voter registration in Georgia.
His Democratic opponent, former state Rep. Stacey Abrams, and voting rights advocacy groups charge that Kemp is systematically using his office to suppress votes and tilt the election, and that his policies disproportionately affect black and minority voters.
Has anyone ever asked these pols why they don’t want BLACKS & OTHER POC to vote?
I’ll wait
https://twitter.com/sahluwal/status/1050197904474791937
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1050370433713766401
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1050367246030295040
BOSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/1050370855971299329
Wonderful! That’s what I’m talking about. Women definitely have the power, energy, and heart to help heal this planet.
Thank you, FOREVER FLOTUS!
I love this!
That’s what she gets. Pay the piper!
https://twitter.com/deray/status/1050372137779912705
https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1050204048257896448
How is this even POSSIBLE? The role of the Secretary of State to oversee his own election…..
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1049826538747658240
fuck Rand Paul 7 the horse he rode in on.
https://twitter.com/IHLaking/status/1049265130498744320
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1050015886277574656
https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1050142521517625344
https://twitter.com/apalmerdc/status/1050017643049168896
https://twitter.com/eyokley/status/1050016996052623360
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄