It’s been more than a week since Turkish surveillance photos show Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based journalist and Saudi dissident, walking into the Kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul — and he hasn’t been seen since. Khashoggi’s disappearance — and suspected murder — threatens to unleash a “bipartisan tsunami,” as Washington, D.C. lawmakers digging for the truth are confronted with evidence indicating the possibility of a Saudi-sanctioned hit. “This would be a game-changer to the nth degree,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Thursday. “The burden is now on Saudi Arabia to account for [Khashoggi’s] time inside the consulate.” The crisis has heightened tensions among already wary regional powers, and could also loosen the close — but complex — ties forged between Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman and President Trump, who said Thursday he wanted to get to the bottom of the Khashoggi mystery, too. “I have to find out what happened,” Trump told “FOX & Friends,” adding Khashoggi’s Oct. 2 is “very serious” and American investigators have been sent to work with Turkey and Saudi Arabia officials. Trump, however, still described the U.S.-Saudi relationship a
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