spectator | However many Ukraine whistleblowers there
may or may not be, Cockburn’s source says that at least one of the
(purported) seven has nothing to do with Ukraine at all. Instead, it’s
claimed that this whistleblower reported a call between Trump and the
Saudi ruler, Mohammed bin Salman. He or she is said to have had
‘concerns’ about what was said on the call about the president’s
son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner. Kushner himself is known to have a
very close relationship with MBS. Cockburn has previously written that
Kushner may have been what Cosmo would call an ‘oversharer’
when it came to MBS. Unfortunately, it’s claimed that what he was
sharing was American secrets: information Kushner had requested from the
CIA would (allegedly) be echoed back in US intercepts of calls between
members of the Saudi royal family. One source said this was why Kushner lost his intelligence clearances for a while.
According
to Cockburn’s source about the seven whistleblowers, there’s more. It
is that Kushner (allegedly) gave the green light to MBS to arrest the
dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was later murdered and
dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. A second source tells
Cockburn that this is true and adds a crucial twist to the story. This
source claims that Turkish intelligence obtained an intercept of the
call between Kushner and MBS. And President Erdogan used it to get Trump
to roll over and pull American troops out of northern Syria before the
Turks invaded. A White House official has told the Daily Mail
that this story is ‘false nonsense’. However, Cockburn hears that
investigators for the House Intelligence Committee are looking into it.
Who knows whether any of this is true…but Adam Schiff certainly seems to
be smiling a lot these days.
