I would certainly want to listen to the tape, not for voyeuristic purposes, but as important as this incident was, it seems to me if you were really insidiously pursuing every scrap of information, every morsel of data that would cast light on what happened that you would want to listen to that tape regardless of the language.
Clapper emphasizes the importance of listening to the audio tape related to Khashoggi's murder for intelligence purposes.
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It speaks to Putin's character, and his KGB background, having essentially lawless, mercenary group, a private army, responsible only to him.
This has devolved into an ad hoc - ad hocing, at this point, this bizarre news conference, from Ministry of Defense, which trying to sort of rationalize, and explain, the Russian Military predicament, really, in Ukraine.
I think, though, that what has been in the past considered an annoyance or an irritation, has now risen to the level of a genuine national security threat.
It shows once again not that we need proof of it, where the President's head really is and all this. And it's not on national security, not on the pandemic, not on the massive Russian cyber espionage.
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