>>3594528 (pb)

This phrase just doesn't make sense to me.

“This puts the ball firmly in Washington’s court,” said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official and scholar at the Brookings Institution. “Not only will there be more pressure now from the media but Congress will say, ‘Gina, we would love to have you come visit and you can tell us exactly what you heard.’ ”

Alternate theory on this. Kashoggi is alive or named names, and she heard him spill the beans and now can testify.