This morning the Wall Street Journal (subscription) is reporting new information that further implicates Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi:

“Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent at least 11 messages to his closest adviser, who oversaw the team that killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in the hours before and after the journalist’s death in October, according to a highly classified CIA assessment.”

“The pre­vi­ously un­re­ported ex­cerpts re­viewed by the Jour­nal state that the CIA has ‘medium-to-high con­fi­dence’ that Prince Mo­hammed ‘per­son­ally tar­geted’ Khashoggi and ‘prob­a­bly or­dered his death.’ It added: ‘To be clear, we lack di­rect re­port­ing of the Crown Prince is­su­ing a kill or­der.'”

“The elec­tronic mes­sages … were to Saud al-Qah­tani [who] su­per­vised the 15-man team that killed Mr. Khashoggi and … was … in di­rect com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the team’s leader in Is­tan­bul, the as­sess­ment says.”

The CIA brief Donald Trump and members of Congress on its intelligence findings last month.  Trump has questioned the findings saying “maybe he did; and maybe he didn’t.”  The Saudi’s have rejected the accusations.