United States President Joe Biden still hasn't declassified a full intelligence report on the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing information from documents and unnamed sources briefed on the matter. The Public Interest Declassification Board had made the recommendation to Biden to declassify the full report, but the American president has yet to do so, according to the newspaper's sources.
Back in February 2021, US intelligence agencies reported their findings about the murder and said that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MbS, approved the operation that ended in Khashoggi's killing. As a result of the report, there was no direct communication between Biden and the prince and the relations between the two governments reportedly deteriorated. However, as Biden tried to affect Saudi oil production during a visit to Jeddah in July 2022, he fist-bumped MbS and then participated in a meeting with the prince that he had claimed he wouldn't.