In July 2015, and with the agreement of then-Minister of Interior and Crown Prince bin Nayef, al-Jabri attended meetings with then-CIA Director John Brennan at CIA headquarters and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in London. The following month he visited the White House to discuss the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. Despite briefing the royal court upon his return it is claimed that Mohammed bin Salman felt al-Jabri was "plotting" with bin Nayef against him.