{"id":181676,"date":"2016-04-16T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/16\/the-house-of-saud-needs-to-go-cheney-itself\/"},"modified":"2016-04-16T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T00:26:00","slug":"the-house-of-saud-needs-to-go-cheney-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/16\/the-house-of-saud-needs-to-go-cheney-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"The House of Saud Needs to Go Cheney Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that the corrupt Neanderthals in Ryadh are upset about a bill in Congress that might make them accountable for their support of terrorists<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Saudi officials have long denied that the kingdom had any role in the Sept. 11 plot, and the 9\/11 Commission found \u201cno evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization.\u201d But critics have noted that the commission\u2019s narrow wording left open the possibility that less senior officials or parts of the Saudi government could have played a role. Suspicions have lingered, partly because of the conclusions of a 2002 congressional inquiry into the attacks that cited some evidence that Saudi officials living in the United States at the time had a hand in the plot.<\/span>

<\/span>Those conclusions, contained in 28 pages of the report, still have not been released publicly.<\/span>

<\/span>The dispute comes as bipartisan criticism is growing in Congress about Washington\u2019s alliance with Saudi Arabia, for decades a crucial American ally in the Middle East and half of a partnership that once received little scrutiny from lawmakers. Last week, two senators introduced a resolution that would put restrictions on American arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which have expanded during the Obama administration.<\/span>

<\/span>Families of the Sept. 11 victims have used the courts to try to hold members of the Saudi royal family, Saudi banks and charities liable because of what the plaintiffs charged was Saudi financial support for terrorism. These efforts have largely been stymied, in part because of a 1976 law that gives foreign nations some immunity from lawsuits in American courts.<\/span>

<\/span>The Senate bill is intended to make clear that the immunity given to foreign nations under the law should not apply in cases where nations are found culpable for terrorist attacks that kill Americans on United States soil. If the bill were to pass both houses of Congress and be signed by the president, it could clear a path for the role of the Saudi government to be examined in the Sept. 11 lawsuits.<\/span>

<\/span>Obama administration officials counter that weakening the sovereign immunity provisions would put the American government, along with its citizens and corporations, in legal risk abroad because other nations might retaliate with their own legislation. Secretary of State John Kerry told a Senate panel in February that the bill, in its current form, would \u201cexpose the United States of America to lawsuits and take away our sovereign immunity and create a terrible precedent.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>The bill\u2019s sponsors have said that the legislation is purposely drawn very narrowly \u2014 involving only attacks on American soil \u2014 to reduce the prospect that other nations might try to fight back.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>The bill is an anomaly in a Congress fractured by bitter partisanship, especially during an election year. It is sponsored by Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, and Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York. It has the support of an unlikely coalition of liberal and conservative senators, including Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, and Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas. It passed through the Judiciary Committee in January without dissent.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My heart is bleeding borscht over their discomfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that the corrupt Neanderthals in Ryadh are upset about a bill in Congress that might make them accountable for their support of terrorists: Saudi officials have long denied that the kingdom had any role in the Sept. 11 plot, and the 9\/11 Commission found \u201cno evidence that the Saudi government as an institution …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,969,1031,1020,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-evil","category-house-of-saud","category-legislation","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}