Posted on 04/16/2016 7:55:04 AM PDT by mandaladon
Saudi Arabia has reportedly told the Obama administration and congressional leaders that it will sell billions of dollars in U.S. financial assets if Congress passes a bill to make the Saudi government legally responsible for any role in the 9/11 attacks.
The administration has tried to stop Congress from passing the legislation, a bipartisan Senate bill, since Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir last month told Washington lawmakers his country’s position, according to The New York Times.
Al-Juberi purportedly informed the lawmakers during a trip to Washington that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell as much as $750 billion in Treasury securities and other American financial assets on the world market, fearing the legislation could become law and U.S. courts would then freeze the assets.
The revelations about the Saudis’ ultimatum come several days after reports that President Obama will soon decide whether to declassify 28 pages of sealed documents suspected of showing a Saudi connection to the deadly 9/11 terror attacks.
Former Florida Democratic Sen. Bob Graham told Fox News on Tuesday that the White House told him a decision on whether to declassify the documents would be made within 60 days.
Graham helped lead a 2002 congressional inquiry into the attacks.
The Bush and Obama administrations have refused to unseal the documents, arguing their release would jeopardize national security. Critics claim the reluctance is a calculated move to hide Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the al Qaeda terror attack that killed almost 3,000 people on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001.
Obama had come under renewed pressure to release the documents ahead of a scheduled trip next week to Saudi Arabia for a summit of Persian Gulf leaders.
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Free trade has consequences.
When you let foreign powers who have “differing” interests control a large part of your economy, don’t be surprised when they use it as a weapon.
“Since Saudis don’t actually do any work, this means that they will import slave labor, work them nearly to death, radicalize them, and send them off to blow up someone else.
And our globalist corporate leaders will cheer for having a new labor market opened for them.”
You totally nailed it. Post Of The Week!
If the Saudis were found to be responsible, the United States would have no option but to seize one trillion plus 15 years of accumulated interest of Saudi assets.
To bad they only have 750 billion assets in the United States to cover the liquidated damages.
That would mean they another 250 -500 billion in oil revenues they must surrender to the United States in order to make us whole.
Just sayin’
If 0vomit releases this information it might be the only worthwhile thing he ever did in his life.
I say release the information. The American public has the right to know. The world show know.
I saw the information today that so far the oil producing countries are not so far agreeing to limit production and raise the price of oil. Diversifying and putting a bunch of their own college graduates to doing useful work, rather than importing people from poor countries to be their servant class, should improve the character of the next Saudi generation.
We need to face it. We have a corrupt globalist / foreign and donor owned government. That part about “for and of the people” has become BULLShxt.
Why aren’t we bombing The Kingdom? (Been saying that since 9/11)
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