The court of international public opinion long ago found MBS guilty over Khashoggi murder. The US has just caught up

There is no mystery in how Jamal Khashoggi died, it was cold-blooded and brutal.

A Turkish intelligence audio recording captured the moments inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul that Saudi government agents drugged, suffocated and dismembered the 59-year-old Washington Post columnist. In the 879 days since, the only geopolitical question of consequence is what role Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known by his initials MBS, played in his death.