At a time when accountability is declining in both the U.S. government and corporate America, there is little external oversight of a company like McKinsey, and we are left asking the people at the firm to impose it on themselves.
At 2:52 P.M., according to a Turkish surveillance video, a reported Saudi intelligence agent walked out of the consulate’s back door dressed in the dissident journalist’s clothes—except for the shoes.
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman—the autocratic royal most widely implicated, directly or indirectly, in Khashoggi’s disappearance—will play a role in the investigation.
Sources close to Sanders said that the press secretary was “horrified” during her first meeting in Riyadh to discover that the crown prince’s lying skills were “rudimentary at best.”
“At one point, Putin was watching the news and saw his puppet behaving in the kind of subservient manner toward the Saudis he had previously reserved for Putin,” an aide said.
If there is any lesson to be learned from this terrible affair, it’s how blind so much of official Washington and the American press were to Mohammed bin Salman’s true nature.