I’m going to rub against the grain here and ruffle a few feathers, but perhaps sending his butt to Saudi Arabia was not so bad a move.
Think about it first before you call for my head now, but if this little ahole is involved then this administration has one of two choices, each of which will p*ss off half of the country.
They can read him his rights, let him lawyer up, and then he can just sit quiet while the people fume, which isn’t a good political thing for the president. On the other hand he can call him a terrorist and ship his butt to Gitmo, which would also be a bad political move for his base.
The other option is to just deport him back to SA and let THEM get the intel for us in a more direct manner than allowed here. I’ve heard about some of the methods they use on known terrorists there, this way it keeps Obama’s hands clean and we get the intel we need.
It’s just one possible theory, but it kind of does kill two birds with one stone for him. He knows the republicans are champing at the bit to nail him if he just lets this guy walk, and I think there is way too much media coverage to do anything so stupid as that now for a political creature like him. The meeting with the Saudi official is the key, if this guy isn’t royal family then they might play ball to be the good guys for us here.
What makes you think the Saudis would interrogate this guy for us? What makes you think Obama would even want any intel extracted from this guy?