[dangus]

I’m struck by how the media keeps calling emerging news “reversals.”

Let’s suppose, for instance, that the Crown Prince and/or King didn’t plan the killing. Would they have been expected to say, immediately, “yes, our administration killed the guy” without an investigation? Wouldn’t you EXPECT that they’d say, “No, we didn’t do this. That’s now how we roll.?” And then only acknowledge the truth as they uncovered it? Would you think they would NOT presume their own people innocent until the weight of the evidence suggested they were guilty?

[Pearls Before Swine]

You misunderstand me.

I don’t know who ordered it. But, obviously it was done, and bungled. And somebody wanted Khashoggi painfully dead rather than just dead.

I wonder why. That might lead us to who.

Motive is an important third part of the “means, motive, opportunity” analysis that applies to many crimes.

Any other suspicions, notwithstanding.