‘Egregious’: Tim Kaine rips decision to grant ‘head-of state immunity’ to MBS over Jamal Khashoggi murder

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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine on Friday sharply criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for claiming in a federal court filing that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “enjoys head-of-state immunity” in a civil case brought by the fiancée of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The Virginia Democrat is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chairs its subcommittee on human rights, and has been outspoken about the 2018 killing of Khashoggi, who lived in his state but disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

“I am deeply disappointed in the State Department’s decision to intervene in a federal lawsuit filed by the friends and family of Virginia resident and Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi against Saudi defendants responsible for his gruesome execution,” Kaine said. “President Biden has been very clear about this horrific crime. He declared in 2019: ‘It was flat-out murder… We should treat it that way and there should be consequences.'”

Using the Saudi prime minister’s nickname, the senator highlighted that “despite the U.S. intelligence community concluding that MBS approved the execution of Khashoggi, the Biden administration has imposed no direct consequences on the crown prince.”

According to Kaine:

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