Republican Senators Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.) said the CIA left little doubt that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was complicit in the murder of activist and writer Jamal Khashoggi.

CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed two Senate committees on Capitol Hill Tuesday on the CIA’s findings about the murder of Khashoggi.

“There’s not a smoking gun, there’s a smoking saw,” said Graham, adding that anyone who would deny bin Salman’s involvement at this point is “willfully blind.” [Read More]

By way of background, we covered the anti-speech machinations at the University of California at Berkeley last year pretty closely — from the riots, to the exorbitant, mandatory, and unevenly-applied security fees, to the discriminatory, speech-squelching limitations imposed upon conservative groups.  Free expression on campus is an issue close to my heart, so I’ve been following the situation at Berkeley with great interest.  Although I oppose government micromanagement of speech codes and the like, I’ve argued that if state universities refuse to safeguard fundamental constitutional rights, the government does have an interest to intervene.  Such intervention could come in the form of withheld taxpayer funds, or through corrective judicial rulings.  [Read More]