President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be the United States’ next top intelligence official told Congress today that the incoming administration will provide lawmakers with an unclassified report on the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
During her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Avril Haines told lawmakers that the Biden administration would “absolutely … follow the law” and give lawmakers the intelligence community’s assessment on who was behind Khashoggi’s grisly murder in Istanbul in 2018. The Trump administration has refused to provide the legally mandated report on Khashoggi’s murder to Congress. The Central Intelligence Agency reportedly concluded that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder.