Former House Intel Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) in a Thursday appearance on CNN slammed National Security Advisor John Bolton's refusal to listen to the tape of murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying it reflected the administration's overall "mishandling" of the entire incident.
"Lawmakers in the appropriate committee should be able to get access to all of that," Rogers said, agreeing with host Alisyn Camerota that the administration didn't "want to hear all the evidence" out of misplaced loyalty to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Bolton, Rogers added, "mishandled the notion that 'we're going to circle around the crown prince because we have this big strategic interest in continuing our strong relationship with Saudi Arabia.' in defense and intelligence."
"I think they just so mishandled how they could separate the murder, which they should deal with, with the larger strategy in Saudi Arabia and they got it completely wrong," he said. "They were accusing people who disagreed with him as somehow loving Obama. I didn't understand any of that."
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