abbreviated and somewhat dumbed down, you might say. but it raises the question as to whether white house officials like president trump, like jared kushner, were ever briefed on this. it's uncertain whether they may have been briefed before jamal khashoggi disappeared, but it's a virtual certainty that after jamal khashoggi disappeared last week that the intelligence community would have presented senior policymakers, to include the president and his son-in-law, with this information given that jamal khashoggi had been disappeared. you know, over the past year or so, the white house has crowed about jared kushner's security clearance. when he finally was granted that top-secret security clearance he sought for so many months they said it was vindication. now it may be a huge liability because it means that jared kushner was eligible to receive that information. he could well have had access to that information. and the question is, if he acted on it, before jamal khashoggi disappeared, by, for example, preventing that duty to warn