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Trump Pentagon nominee questioned about firm's link to killing of Saudi journalist

The Senate Armed Services Committee is holding up the nomination of Louis Bremer over questions whether his firm trained those implicated in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
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Senate lawmakers on Thursday grilled President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Pentagon’s special operations over his company’s reported connection to those implicated by US intelligence in the killing of Saudi Arabian dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

Louis Bremer, a former Navy SEAL, was rebuked by members of the Senate Armed Services Committee after he said he did not know whether his firm, Tier 1, had ever trained members of the Saudi hit squad.

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