Thread by @JameelJaffer

Here's what Biden, Congress, and US business and civic leaders should do in response to the #Khashoggi killing. 🧵

https://twitter.com/JameelJaffer/status/1365371386148102150

First, Biden should release other key docs about the killing—like the still-withheld CIA report, as well as records showing what U.S. intel agencies knew about the Saudi regime’s plans for Khashoggi, when they learned it, and what they did about it. justsecurity.org/63955/intellig…

Second, Biden should ban the Crown Prince from the United States. The State Department already banned 16 others for their role in the killing. Given the intel community’s conclusion that the Crown Prince likely ordered the killing, he needs to be banned, too.

Third, given the role that MBS played here, Biden should extend and expand the freeze it has already imposed on arms sales to Saudi Arabia. It must send a clear message that the U.S. won’t supply weapons to regimes whose leadership persecutes journalists and activists.

Fourth, Congress should consider what legal reforms are necessary to ensure that U.S. courts can hold accountable those who persecute journalists and dissidents, as well as the companies that peddle surveillance technology to persecutors.

Fifth, American business and civic leaders must curtail their engagement with the Crown Prince. Engagement with him normalizes the grotesque and increases the likelihood that other journalists and dissidents will find themselves similarly targeted in the future.