“An unnamed National Security Agency official told the … [Observer] that US intelligence had learned that Riyadh ‘had something unpleasant in store for Khashoggi,’ at least a day before Khashoggi went to the embassy in Istanbul,” where he was murdered, in early October 2018. “The ‘threat warning was communicated to the White House through official intelligence channels’ … [but] the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has refused to comment on why Khashoggi was not warned.”)156
