“Gender equality is a universal human right. It isn’t something that is unique to Western values…Everyone should have the right to travel freely, and it is incumbent on Google and Apple to take up some position on this issue.”
“An example of that would be the $750 million package that [Saudi Arabia] purchased a couple of years ago for targeting purposes. That package would have been discounted because of [U.S.] IMET aid.”
“[A]ccountability that ignores the role of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman [is not] legitimate or credible. The Saudi regime seeks to blame some of the individuals carrying out orders of the Crown Prince, while excluding him from any culpability.”
“The fact that DoD is just now realizing that it had failed to properly bill the Saudi-led coalition after all these years is quite troubling. Congress must now…fix the loophole that could have allowed this.”
“I think this makes it much for difficult for [Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman] to sustain his singular focus on Iran because the actions he is condemning there, he himself is perpetrating.”
“Turkey and Saudi Arabia now see each other as leaders on opposite sides of a grand Middle Eastern debate about stability versus populism… I don’t think Turkey is going to drop this [focus on Khashoggi’s murder].”
“[TV] channels [in Turkey] are in lockstep. This would be the equivalent of being in a country in which you had seven MSNBCs or seven Fox televisions, where you had news that was clearly supportive of the government on all the channels.”
“The idea that the Saudis would take [Khashoggi] outside of their own diplomatic compound, into sovereign Turkish territory and apply pressure to him is just completely implausible.”