Amid a pressure campaign, Squire Patton Boggs finally cut ties with a Saudi office implicated in Jamal Khashoggi's murder. Only took three years. motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
In February, an ODNI report directly implicated the Saudi Center for Studies and Media Affairs and its former head, MBS aide Saud al-Qahtani, in Khashoggi's murder. dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…
As @BenFreemanDC pointed out at the time, and we reported, Squire Patton Boggs was at that time a registered foreign agent for the Saudi Center for Studies and Media Affairs, under a contract signed with Qahtani himself. motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Patton Boggs didn't know in 2016 that their client would be involved in murdering a journalist. But Qahtani and the center's role was widely reported in the months after the murder. And still the firm kept working for them. wsj.com/articles/behin…; washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
Ahead of the 3rd anniversary of Khashoggi's death, Democracy for the Arab World Now, a reboot of a group he founded, launched a campaign to shame Squire Patton Boggs, and the top lobbyist on the account, for continuing to work for the "center." dawnmena.org/u-s-congress-d…
Three House Dems, Reps. McCollum, Khanna, and Tlaib, said they would refuse to meet with Squire's Patton Bogg's Ed Newberry unless the firm stopped working for the center. That is unusually person public shaming. It seems to have worked.
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