Posted on 11/10/2017 2:40:25 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Caroline Glick provides essential background and context (read here or here) for understanding the purge underway in Saudi Arabia and its impact on us. Along the way, she considers our very own D.C. lobbyists and reveals information that is on the record yet, as James Lewis pointed out to me, is almost never mentioned in the media:
Saudi government spending on lobbyists in Washington far outstrips that of any other nation. According to Justice Department disclosures from earlier this year, since 2015, Saudi Arabia vastly increased its spending on influence peddling. According to a report by The Intercept, "Since 2015, the Kingdom has expanded the number of foreign agents on retainer to 145, up from 25 registered agents during the previous two-year period."In the past, they were able to get their money's worth when it counted.
Saudi lobbyists shielded the kingdom from serious criticism after 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers were shown to be Saudi nationals. They blocked a reconsideration of the US's strategic alliance with Saudi Arabia after the attacks and in subsequent years, even as it was revealed that Princess Haifa, wife of Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to Washington at the time the September 11 attacks occurred, had financially supported two of the hijackers in the months that preceded the attacks.
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The Crown Prince is helping Trump drain the swamp by cutting off the spigot of Saudi money.
Gotta love it.
WINNING and finding friends in the oddest of places.
DJT = MAGA
congress get with the program; Help him MAGA or be forever damned
This is going to take some time to unravel. The level of corruption is mind-numbing. I hope I live long enough to see all truth revealed!
A lot of revolting things will be revealed once the swamp is drained.
The Bush family business!
The Bushes declined Sword Dances etc. to not draw attention to their dependency on SA.
Princess Reem has been arrested. .who is next in the talal family
Another hotel has been fully booked until 2018
Wow. Turn the SA swamp creatures into a horde of Rapunzels.
Wonder if Salman Jr. has warrants for all the obnoxious, Lamborghini street-racing jerk princes in the US.
Remember W?
“Islam is a religion of peace”
Jedi Mind Control, paid for by the Saudis.
The young prince now in charge put all of these influencers under arrest and froze their assets.
And the money trail leads back to DC, on both sides.
Lots of retirements from Congress....hmmmmmmmm.
Remember the Swamp/Terror Orb CINC and the King were working on at the visit? Maybe SA’ AG could moonlight in DC for us for a few months.
Of course that will never happen...too much crooked money floating around and the whores and scum all want a piece of the action.
Maybe this is why GWB has been so vocal after 8 years of silence. Trump is getting into his pocket. MAGA!
But I thought Obama promised to get rid of lobbyists.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/18/editorial-mr-obamas-lobbyists/
Interesting observation
No enough bodies.
The Saudis were no doubt paying to keep our oil and gas in the ground. Now that no longer works.
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