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Think logically. Why would any intelligence agency go to the expense and trouble to lure a rogue asset of another service's intelligence aparatus, simply to cut him up on your own table with an electronic transmitter running?
If you wanted to do wet work, to include his head, there are far more discreet ways to 'bag' that objective.
However, if you've expended a great deal of trouble and treasure to get your hands on a walking, talking asset, via subterfuge or good fortune, you DON'T KILL HIM! You capture and turn him…put him in witness protection or a cell with time to think; but you never, ever throw away a treasure trove of actionable intelligence. NEVER, EVER! It would be professional malpractice of the highest degree…epic stupidity..and just as unlikely.
His ginned up capture and carving is for the illiterate, blood thirsty sensationalists and other proxy assets similarly situated. Their responses and actions are themselves a gold mine of intelligence and pin map hamburger helper.
These people are stupid. The field is ours…and surely Mr. Khashoggi is singing like a canary. THIS is why all the uproar. Sociopaths could give a damn about him, it's their butts they're worried about. The loudest voices.
Everything in it's turn…first DECLAS…and it's uproar…then Justice K…and that uproar…now a likely 9/11 conduit get nabbed…and the uproar. The wicked are being played like fiddles in a Charlie Daniels song…and it is glorious to our eyes!