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.
What's "stunning" is people actually thinking "our" government is anything BUT corrupt.
Happy Tax Day!
George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama - The worst Presidents in American history. Barack is the “Nero” of our time.
The United States government and its political system is as corrupt as any on this earth. The American people have only themselves to blame.
I am pretty sure I heard President Elect Trump say a couple months ago, HE WILL MAKE THEM PUBLIC.
If Trump jumps on this bandwagon to Immediately Release the 28 pages, it will be good for at least 10 points nationwide.
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“If Trump jumps on this bandwagon to Immediately Release the 28 pages, it will be good for at least 10 points nationwide.”
Trump has already slammed GWB with withering criticism over 9/11 and he has demanded the Saudis “pay their fair share” as it were, for their defense. For this Trump has suffered blast after blast of “ridicule” from the Media and the Ruling Class.
Only Trump has had the stones to tell the truth. We need Donald Trump as President or this country is finished. It’s as simple as that.
That’s what I thought also, Now is the time to PUBLIC IN A BIG WAY, Like nobody but Trump can or DARES!!
GWB was the ‘Poison Lite’ choice both times!
He was abysmally bad as his NWO beliefs rose to the surface and was especially noticeable after 9/11. Instead of immediately bombing the hell out of the Saudi oilfields leaving them where they belonged: destitute, he went after the only stabilizing force in the region: Saddam Hussein.
while Saddam ruled, Christians and Jews were able to sleep at night as he openly protected them. Iranians quaked in their boots and said many prayers to ‘Allah’ when we bombed the crap out of Iraq. When we hunted Saddam down like an animal after killing his family, they were able to again rejoice as Saddam was hanged.
What an utterly, but no doubt deliberate, stupid act that followed 9/11.
Additionally, due to cozying up to the nation’s left and blowing money like a hurricane, Bush paved the way for an Obama who he, and his cohorts, would shove an impoverished, both morally and economically, America into the NWO, represented by the United Nations, America’s enemy domiciled and financed by our extorted tax dollars.!
The farther it gets in the rear view mirror, the more your view is becoming a correct interpretation of eight years of GWB.
Instead of their bodies being snatched and replaced by an unknown evil force (NWO) they have been effectively zombied.
Sell to who? Nobody with any brains or money would buy our debt and nobody else can afford it.
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“Sell to who? Nobody with any brains or money would buy our debt and nobody else can afford it.”
We buy it back with printed money. That’s been the plan all along. After that comes the economic apocalypse....
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