Posted on 04/18/2016 5:12:35 AM PDT by HomerBohn
The Obama Administration has been lobbying Congress to block a bill that would allow Saudi Arabia’s government to be held accountable in American courts for any role it played in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In addition to Obama's efforts to keep information about 9/11 confidential, Saudi Arabia has threatened to sell hundreds of billions of dollars worth of its American assets if Congress passes the bill. In recent weeks, administration officials have been warning lawmakers of the bill’s potential economic fallout.
The Obama Administration’s strict opposition to the 9/11 bill has left many family members of the terror attacks’ victims outraged.
Mindy Kleinberg, whose husband died in the attacks on the World Trade Center, expressed her discontent in an interview with the New York Times.
“It’s stunning to think that our government would back the Saudis over its own citizens,” Kleinberg said.
(Watch first video at link)
In the past, families of the victims have had trouble using the courts to face elements of Saudi banks and the Saudi royal family, whom they’ve accused of funding terrorism. Their efforts were slowed by a 1976 law that awards foreign nations a certain degree of immunity from lawsuits in American courts.
The 9/11 bill would eliminate this immunity for nations found culpable of terrorist attacks that kill Americans on American soil.
So far, a 9/11 Commission found “no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization [Al-Qaeda].”
Critics argue that the Commission’s limited scope and wording steered the investigation away from lesser-level officials and other elements of the government that may have played a role in the terror plot.
(Watch second video at link)
They also point to a still-classified Congressional Inquiry in 2002, which cited evidence that members of the Saudi government played a role in the 9/11 attacks.
Nonetheless, the Obama Administration argues that limiting foreign nations’ immunity would put the American government, as well as its citizens and corporations at risk of lawsuits if foreign nations were to retaliate with their own legislation.
As for Saudi Arabia’s economic threat, some economists are calling the move an “empty threat” that would not only be difficult to pull off, but it would also cripple the Kingdom’s own economy.
When will the treason charges come against Obama?
When will Congress begin to represent the will of the people in this republic?
You were expecting otherwise?
As soon as we elect (n) additional "principled conservatives".
Like Bush and Cheney? The two dimwits who let the Saudis just walk out the front door?
Oh, surprise.
Saudi snaps their finger and Obama bows.
The Unitary was bought off by the Saudi government long ago.
DOJ will sue Christian bakers, nuns, oil companies and prosecute scientists who are not warmists, but please! oh, please! don’t sue the Saudi terrorist accomplices.
‘zackly.
We know the USA pays ‘rent’ to the Saudi’s as DJT has pointed out. We know they’re rich as sh$t from cash paid by normal Americans just to drive to work due to the years and years of OPEC Cartel oil supply controls. Now we have to know if they killed a bunch of us to boot. They wont sell off squat since they’ll need a safe haven when all the royals scuttle like cockroaches in front of ISIS and Iran once we stop defending them. 2016 is emerging as the year of truth. Let’s get this out in the open now, too.
“It’s stunning to think that our government would back the Saudis over its own citizens,” Kleinberg said. “
It’s all about the money, Mindy.
Same as the Iranian nuke deal we were sandbagged on.
Money and Social policy, where the Uniparty comes together.
Where are the torches and pitchforks?
But of course, the most transparent administration in history opts for - no transparency.
I’m shocked, shocked...I tell ya.
>But of course, the most transparent administration in history opts for - no transparency.
To be fair they probably offered him at least 100 mil for his support.
we already know tht the house of saud ..... the government of saudi arabia ....
financed 9/11
we already know that the saudi financed 2800 mosques are safe havens and banks for jiahdis
we already know that C.A.I.R. is an unindicted co-conspirator of 9/11
the question is why congress does not act ...
the threat of the sauds dumping $750 in us securities on the market is ABSURD...
they would be shooting themselve in the wallet... and they just dont do that ...
the real threat is no longer agreeing to the PETRODOLLAR ...all oil sales must be in DOLLARS ...as agreed with the house of saud....
now our leverage is that without our support the house fo saud falls.... take a look at ghadaffy, mubarak ... take a look at the nuke gift to iran ... take a real good look at isis ... (our alqueda adventure redux) ....
in fact all the gulf states are at risk ...
but in his usual fashion obama does what is worst for america and sides with the sauds.... as usual for bendover barry the chiraq bathhouse towel boy.... always lubed and ready....
if the repubs were really all about what they hotair about .... he would be impeached .... he is a TRAITOR
Yeah, for his new Presidential Library...
Aren’t some of these Saudis on the “stop Trump” team? I guess they are also “principled conservatives”. Were any of them double agent delegates?
The self-EXEMPT know more than the voters whom they HATE,
whom they infect with incurable diseases,
in whose homes they quarter Islamic and Narco-terrorists.
The self-EXEMPT are not done because they
are enabled by their OWNED MSM and are
as psychotic as any predator.
Economic Masters bump for later....
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