Nayyera Haq: ‘We Can’t Continue to Outsource Power to Places Like Turkey’

EXCERPT:

HAQ: "And we can’t continue to outsource U.S. power to places like Turkey, for example, which has its own extreme record of violations against journalism. At the height of Erdogan taking control, 150 journalists detained, more than 150 media outlets shut down. We can't be relying on a country like that to be standing up for the rights of journalists to be covering these types of regimes. And also, they're problematic in general. This why we have U.S. intelligence services. We're hearing about all of these reports because of the resourcefulness of American reporters. The White House could easily have turned on some of our assets and intel sources in the region to get to the bottom of what’s been happening with Khashoggi."