qahtani's electronic forcebe me known as an "army of flies." >> saud al-qahtani, he has got an army.ts on cebook.ybe, these comments are dirted by him by his team, either to promome the regi or torite things against what we write. >> smith: what's the nature of these comments? " that is the nature. the nature is thhammed bin salman is a great man. mohammed bin salman is aero. and dr. al-faqih, mr. so-and-so are all traitors." >> smith: is it effective in screditing you? >> it's not effective in tms of discrediting, but it is effective in terms of intimidation. ♪ >> smith: the saudis may have even infiltrated twitter. ♪ in 2015 western intelligenced officials learat the saudis had developed ties with a twitter engineer. according to three sources whord spoke to "the new york times," they "persuaded him to peer into several user accounts." twitter alerteal-faqih that heon may have been those targeted. >> we found out that there was an inv itigation into this saudi individual aually being a mole of sorts inside twitter for the royal court. >> so being someone inside twitter, thiemployee

it was run by this powerful aide — saud al-qahtani.n had authorised the mission. it makes sense to see that reference to the communication office as being a reference to mr saud al-qahtani. al-qahtani wasn't just handling media operations for the crown prince. he was reportedly behind the torture of women activists who dared to drive. and a round—up of saudi princes suspected of disloyalty. "mbs's communications team within the royal court publicly has chastised, and worse, intimidated anyone who disagrees. saud al-qahtani, leader of that unit has a blacklist." he began doing extraordinary services, secret black operations involving cyber security. the saudis for many years have had a policy of, you know, trying to suppress dissent. that became part of his portfolio and he managed it with a particular ruthlessness. the recorded phone calls reveal other senior saudi officials were part of the plot. there are conversations between the consul—general and the head of security at the ministry foreign affairs. he's saying, "say that the miss

authorities had banned him from writing in a phone call from an adviser to the royal court so doubt qahtani. ashaji later referred to this ban in a b.b.c. interview shouted we are a little. bit earlier and must call your bluff will be a real hard if you will live any longer be the man remain a good. in september 27th seen a show she started writing for the washington post. this enabled him to communicate with a far wider audience and sphere of influence. for the saudis i think this was the scariest thing the guy writes for a paper that's already all over the world that are driven by this is a makers in the us. someone from of this in mind enough to fill out a family coffee then them for better than many men do a lot for thought. because more. by this time she wanted to legalize his status in the u.s. and in december 2017 was granted political asylum that offered him a degree of stability and he began to create a network between washington is stamboul london and other world capital. fori took the producers of this program to his friend jamal's apartment in tysons corner of virginia. they man

qahtani who was a special advisor to crown the crown prince he had several jobs he was fired from all of them he hasn't been seen for months publicly no one really knows the truth about what's happened it's rumored that he's been poisoned and he's dead that it's not a surprise if that was the case because that is a policy that's well known about for executions of not only dissidents but also people within the the house and solid as well in terms of people who have evidence for example or who fall out of favor but right here at the public prosecutor's office as i say it's going to be a frustration and it's turned of frustration if you will because so much work has been done the leaked tapes the audiotapes all of the surveillance the spying effectively is a huge. the important factor to what's happened all of it could prove murder undoubtedly but pointing also to the connection with the crown prince mohammed bin . that is where 'd the whole situation stands still because of geopolitics you're not going to see anything further it's expected by diplomats anything other than the words he g

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his advisors advisors a south qahtani it's simply not possible to anyone familiar with the saudi regime or the way it operates that this would happen with the conferences knowledge and in all likelihood it was instigated and ordered by the crown prince yeah and then conclusion was also reached by the you winds top a person from for investigating extrajudicial killings she spoke with us earlier today that is to which to take a listen to what she said the belts mohamed bin selman in his role in the killing. when. mohammed bin some men we cook nice easy response said b.t.s. kweisi head of state he also m p c t m by m.p. kishen we cook nice that the killing of mr kennedy was a state killing something that so far the authorities that systematically refuse then criticize me for finding that the state of saudi arabia was responsible for the killing so that's what she said today stephen earlier this week the crown prince said that he takes responsibility for the killing but that he was not involved in any way new blood on his here what did you think when you heard that. it's a contradiction he'

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host: was there fallout for qahtani? guest: right, good question.mohammed bin salman in front of me, that is a question i would ask. -- public prosecutor of your your public prosecutor has leader ofm as the the operation against jamal khashoggi, and yet he is not on trial -- why not and where is he? we did have a conversation with veryy close advisor, a high level advisor to the crown prince, who told us he did not want to be named, but he said that i am sorry, but going after qahtani would be to politically -- too politically impractical. it would not look good and we cannot do that. he has protected. and he knows a lot. i might choose if i was in his shoes to want to silence him. and putting him on trial might lead to him speaking out or dropping information that the crown prince does not want out there. host: we have a couple more calls. frost, texas, a democrat. caller: good morning. mr. smith, this is also a question outside the parameters of your special, which i will watch. doo not understand why -- i not know what the justification was for s

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