According to the Monitor website, Democrats in Congress are drafting legislation that forces President Donald Trump to declassify the report of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and the disclosure of every Saudi official who colluded in the crime, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff ruled out the possibility of accountability without the Trump administration announcing what it knew about who had carried out and attempted to cover up the crime in the Saudi government.
Schiff said that Congress needs further steps to ensure the confidentiality of the intelligence report on Khashoggi's murder is removed.
Last year, the National Defense Authorization Bill asked the Trump administration to present a non-confidential version of the report to Congress.
Its initial text also included the punishment of every Saudi official who was found involved in the report.
Burying the case
Earlier, Senator Ron Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that pardoning Khashoggi's killers did not bring the truth or justice closer, and that the United States could not accept the ruling family’s campaign in Saudi Arabia to bury the case.
About two years ago, Khashoggi was killed by a Saudi team at his country's consulate in Istanbul. Five days ago, Salah, the son of Khashoggi, tweeted, at dawn last Friday, saying, "We announce the sons of the martyr Jamal Khashoggi, that we pardon those who killed our father, may God have mercy on him - for God’s sake - and we all hope and count the reward for God Almighty.”
And the American senator asserted that "whoever lives under a despotic and murderous regime cannot make a decision of his own free will," referring to Khashoggi's son saying that the family pardoned the killers.
For its part, the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain said that the case of Khashoggi’s murder is not a family, and that any concession or amnesty from anyone does not affect the criminal nature of the case and the need to reach full justice, especially determining the fate of the body.
She added that the case was expected to reach this method, that is, blood money in exchange for a family pardon. The case was described as "state terrorism that calls for those responsible to be held accountable before an international court."
The organization called on the Khashoggi family not to enter into controversies that disrupt efforts to hold those responsible accountable for Jamal's death.