President Trump fails to respond on Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
The Trump administration has refused to respond to a request from Congress to provide a report determining who killed the Saudi journalist Jamal. Senators wrote in October demanding the murder be investigated and that the White House give more information. An administration official said the president was within his rights to decline to act. Khashoggi was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October last year. He was a strong critic of the Saudi government. His body was reportedly dismembered and has still not been found. But Saudi officials insist he was murdered by a "rogue" team of Saudi agents not acting on the prince's orders. An administration statement said Mr Trump "maintains his discretion to decline to act on congressional committee requests when appropriate". However, Democratic senators told the New York Times but he president was in breach of the so-called Magnitsky Ac t, which requires a response within 120