{"id":382354,"date":"2018-10-25T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-cia-director-in-turkey-to-investigate-khashoggi-murder\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:02:57","slug":"presstv-cia-director-in-turkey-to-investigate-khashoggi-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-cia-director-in-turkey-to-investigate-khashoggi-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-CIA director in Turkey to investigate Khashoggi murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Gina Haspel has listened to audio allegedly capturing the interrogation and killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CIA chief&#8217;s investigation will give a key member of President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration access to the evidence used by Turkey to accuse Saudi Arabia of Khashoggi\u2019s premeditated murder.<\/p>\n<p>Haspel, who departed for a secret trip to Turkey on Monday, heard the audio during her visit to Istanbul, the Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with her meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Haspel is scheduled to brief Trump on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has made Saudi Arabia a central pillar of his Middle East strategy, has expressed skepticism about Riyadh\u2019s claim that Khashoggi\u2019s murder was a \u201crogue operation\u201d that occurred after a fistfight broke out in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Trump said Saudi officials had engaged in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/25\/578051\/US-CIA-Gina-Haspel--Turkey-Khashoggi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Gina Haspel has listened to audio allegedly capturing the interrogation and killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The CIA chief&#8217;s investigation will give a key member of President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration access to the evidence used by Turkey to accuse Saudi Arabia of Khashoggi\u2019s premeditated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}