WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia's crown prince likely approved an operation to kill or capture a U.S.-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly declassified U.S.
intelligence report released Friday that could escalate pressure on the Biden administration to hold the kingdom accountable for a murder that drew bipartisan and international outrage.The central conclusion of the report was widely expected given that intelligence officials were said to have reached it soon after the brutal Oct.