No one knows for sure if Khashoggi is dead and Friedman revealed him as an anonymous source who provided quotes critical of the Saudi government with no concern for Khashoggi’s friends and family who could be targeted in retaliation. Unbelievably careless. nytimes.com/2018/10/08/opi… 
Nowhere in this Tom Friedman piece will you find an apology for or retraction of that saccharine “Saudi Arab Spring” column. In fact, this reads more like a long justification of that column than a plea on behalf of his dead or kidnapped friend. What NYT editor let this through?
If Khashoggi is still alive, do you think he really wouldn’t mind being revealed as Thomas Friedman’s anonymous source for quotes critical of the Saudi regime? Perhaps not, but his torturers probably will.
Perhaps I’m being hard on Friedman. Most reports indicate that Khashoggi is no longer with us, and if it comes out that he is still alive, I can’t imagine how his friend will feel about potentially endangering him. I empathize with how awful that would be. But this was a fuck up.
