Robert Evans
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Although, again, no one says where.
Everyone says he went to Lewis and Clark at PSU and he got a degree, but nobody says where the degree is from.
And we've confirmed it wasn't either of those colleges.
I don't know.
Yeah, Lewis and Clark College, a guy that Mohammed bin Salman sparred with came here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe not the best ad.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I don't know that he actually did graduate.
Stig writes that he took, quote, courses on security issues with the FBI from 1985 to 1988 and trained with Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist units in London from 1992 to 1994.
In 1994, he began working regularly with his father, Interior Minister Nayef in Riyadh.
And I think this is a situation where he's probably not that great a student.
I don't think he would have qualified to have special training with the FBI in Scotland Yard based on his own merits.
But because he's a prince and he's someone who is going to be a big part of the Saudi state, when he expresses, I'm interested in anti-terrorism work, right?
I'm interested in training with Western law enforcement organizations and counterterrorism.
They're all like, well, this is our chance to have a man on the inside.
This is our chance to have a guy in Saudi Arabia, not like a spy, but a guy who we know is like a friend to us, who we feel like we can trust, as opposed to this regime's kind of a black box to us otherwise, right?
And he didn't, you know, that episode wasn't the best.