"Bloomberg" agency reported that US District Judge Paul Engelmayer ordered US intelligence agencies to hand over a recording of Jamal Khashoggi's killing.

The agency described the Saudi journalist as a dissident and columnist for the Washington Post, noting that the ruling also stipulated the delivery of the CIA report on the killing.

In this regard, it was reported that the US judge obligated the government to issue a "phone index", where "every blocked record" is listed and classified, rejecting the government's claim that it can only admit that it "has some documents", in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act.

The agency "Bloomberg" that the ruling does not require that the recording and the report be made public.

Judge Engelmayer was quoted as confirming that President Donald Trump acknowledged during an interview with Fox News in November 2018 that the United States had a record of the killing, and the judge said in this regard: “The president admitted verbatim that the US intelligence agencies have reviewed the recording and that the government owns it. ".

Engelmayer said that Trump and CIA Director Gina Haspel had publicly referred to written materials related to the agency's investigation, meaning that both elements should be described in the Vaughn index.

Source: bloomberg.com

By:Nadeemy Haded