Washington Post blasts Pompeo's 'shameful' remarks on Jamal Khashoggi

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The Washington Post slammed Pompeo after he downplayed slain columnist Jamal Khashoggi's credentials as a journalist, calling Pompeo's remarks 'vile falsehoods.'

The Washington Post slammed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday after he downplayed slain columnistnew memoir

“He didn’t deserve to die, but we need to be clear about who he was — and too many in the media were not,” Pompeo wrote in the book, according toPompeo called Khashoggi's murder "ugly" but criticized what he perceived as the media's portrayal of Khashoggi as “a Saudi Arabian Bob Woodward who was martyred for bravely criticizing the Saudi royal family through his opinion articles in the Washington Post.

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