- CNN intelligence and security analyst Robert Baer cast doubt on the claim, saying it was too far for a Bluetooth connection and that Khashoggi was unlikely to have anticipated transmitting a recording in advance. "I think what's happened, clearly, is the Turks have the Saudi consulate wired, they have transmitters," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
"The Turks don't trust any diplomats and they have been into most embassies and most consulates in Turkey and they listen to what's going on -- and if indeed there are tapes proving that he was murdered, I think that's probably how they know. But the Turks are very reluctant to admit that."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/12/middleeast/khashoggi-saudi-turkey-recordings-intl/index.html
In case people didn't read the CNN article, the Apple Watch doesn't have the touchID fingerprint feature. Oops. Sorry 'bl00, I'm blowing you up today. Edit: ya know, figurativelyThe paper said Saudi intelligence agents had realized after he died that the watch was recording and they used his finger print to unlock it, deleting some files, but not all of them. The recordings were subsequently found on his phone, it said.
C'mon now. Bluetooth also doesn't work from more than 30 feet either. They would have had to have questioned, beaten, murdered and dismembered the guy one wall away from his fiancee. Thus my inclusion of Baer's seriously now the Turks have the embassy bugged comments.
Oh for sure. Yeah, I'd give them at least 25 feet instead of the quoted 12, as a courtesy, like a bluetooth connection. When I torture people, I don't do it on the ground floor, because I uh, I don't want to get noise complaints, you know? So add 10 or 20 vertical feet. Is it maybe even in a basement? Then, what, is she at the same corner of the building as the torture chamber? Yeah man, that phone isn't synching anything. But it's ok, Kushner's defusing this whole thing as we speak