In January 2021, with the incoming US administration under Joe Biden, the newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines was pressured to declassify - essentially making it a public document - the report on Khashoggi's assassination “without delay”. The Trump administration had blocked its declassification despite being legally required to release it. US senator Ron Wyden asked Haines during her confirmation hearing on 19 January 2021, where she confirmed: "Yes, senator, absolutely. We will follow the law". Agnès Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, praised the move, saying the information would provide the “one essential missing piece of the puzzle of the execution of Jamal Khashoggi”.