While the level of protection afforded Saudi Arabia in Washington is hardly a secret, the level of that support was on display this month when officials pushed the Obama Administration to release long-withheld pages from the 9-11 report, as we previously discussed. Those pages reportedly implicate Saudi Arabia in the 9-11 attacks. Saudi Arabia response with an express threat to sell off hundreds of billions of dollars of assets if Congress were to pass a bill allowing the Kingdom to be held liable for the attacks. One would think that the response would be outrage at the threat. After all, the bill would only allow citizens to sue and a bipartisan group of Senators have joined to support the 9-11 families. Saudi Arabia could still defend itself (and according to its government, vindicate itself) in a court of law. Of course, the United States has a real court system as opposed to the government controlled, Sharia “courts” used in the Kingdom to mete out medieval justice.
The Administration not only is staying silent about this insulting threat but is doing precisely what the Saudis are demanding in trying to block the bill. When push comes to shove between the victims or 9-11 and the Saudis, the choice appears clear.
So that there would be no mistake about the threat,
Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, delivered the kingdom’s message personally last month — threatening a sudden sell-off of $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets to cripple the economy. The rationale is to avoid the assets from being frozen by American courts. Interestingly, this assumes that you are likely to be found guilty of complicity in the worst terrorist attack in United States history. What is interesting is that the use of al-Jubeir seemed calculated to maximize the threat. The same message could have been delivered through leaks that the Saudis were preparing such a selloff for strategic reasons. The open threat was a serious miscalculation by the Saudis in my view. Few Americans would take the threat as anything short of a slap in the face of the victims of 9-11 and the country as a whole.
The Obama Administration is shrugging off the insult to our legal system by a country that violates every core principle of due process and civil liberties in their own country. Instead, it is suggesting that holding Saudi Arabia liable for American deaths could put Americans at legal risk overseas. Whatever the merits of the argument against the access to the courts for these citizens (and I would be very interesting to hear them), the Administration should have delivered a clear message that we do not respond to such threats, particularly when another country is balancing American lives against foreign investments.
What do you think?
9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
2500 Architects and Engineers are telling us the U.S. Government is Lying about 9/11
The U.S. Government is complicit in the murders of 9/11
3 NYC SKYSCRAPERS WERE DESTROYED BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION ON 9/11
Our enemy does not want you to know about the 3rd building, WTC 7. It was not hit by a plane
This issue exposes the wide and deep corruption of the governments, courts and media
More evidence at http://BuenaVistaMall.com
https://youtu.be/kQ2iVymP7hA
Zionist Liar Larry Silverstein, Israeli agent, Mass Murderer & Traitor
Larry Silverstein let the Mossad into the WTC buildings
He had foreknowledge that the buildings were rigged for controlled demolition
Arrest Silverstein for high treason, mass murder, insurance fraud & complicity of 9/11
Place Larry Silverstein in protective custody and freeze all his assets
Silverstein arranged for the 3 skyscrapers to be rigged for controlled demolition prior to 9/11
He had control of the WTC buildings’ security company. The rigging could not have gone unnoted
He was overheard on 9/11 asking his insurance company for authorization to demolish WTC 7
3 NYC SKYSCRAPERS WERE DESTROYED BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION ON 9/11
“SCIENTISTS, ARCHITECTS, & ENGINEERS now affirm that the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center buildings was an inside job. The leading scientist of Scholars For 9/11 Truth, Dr Steven Jones, has proven that controlled demolition devices were placed within the WTC Twin Towers – and this is what brought the buildings down not the airplanes. According to Fox News journalist Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, Larry Silverstein tried on the afternoon of 9/11 to get approval to demolish WTC 7. Shortly before the building collapsed, several NYPD officers and Con-Edison workers told me that Larry Silverstein, the property developer of One World Financial Center was on the phone with his insurance carrier to see if they would authorize the controlled demolition of the building ? since its foundation was already unstable and expected to fall.”
(editor: this was a lie WTC 7 was not unstable and not expected to fall)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology lied. WTC 7 did not come down due to office fires
This is a video of Silverstein admitting demolition of WTC 7 Larry ‘Pull it’ Silverstein Silverstein lied. The fire dept. did not authorize this demolition. Silverstein would never give the name of the fire dept. commander with whom he claimed he spoke.
https://youtu.be/p34XrI2Fm6I
stevegroen:
“The reason that war was approved by Congress wasn’t because of a security council vote”
Actually, as President Bush and then-Senator Clinton explained and the 2002 AUMF plainly states, Congress authorized the President to “enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq” (Public Law 107-243).
As such, the decision for Operation Iraqi Freedom responded to the Saddam regime’s evidential material breach across the board of the “relevant United Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq”, including and especially the (WMD) disarmament (UNSCR 687), terrorism (UNSCR 687), and humanitarian (UNSCR 688) mandates of the Gulf War ceasefire.
Notably, UNSCR 1441 (2002) “afford[ed] Iraq, by this resolution, a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations under relevant resolutions of the Council [with] … full and verified completion [of] the disarmament process established by resolution 687″.
As such, the principal trigger for OIF was the UNSCR 1441 inspections that found “about 100 unresolved disarmament issues”, such as “With respect to stockpiles of bulk agent stated to have been destroyed, there is evidence to suggest that these was [sic] not destroyed as declared by Iraq.”
Excerpt from the answer to “Did Bush allow enough time for the inspections?”:
“Despite that the ceasefire disarmament process was essentially the same in 2002-2003 as it had been since 1991, UNMOVIC’s role has been widely mischaracterized as searching Iraq for WMD to match the pre-war intelligence, while the mandate for Saddam has been widely mischaracterized as merely to allow the UN inspectors to search Iraq.
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Actually, the burden of proof was on Iraq to prove it had disarmed as mandated by UNSCR 687, not on the UN inspectors to demonstrate Iraq was armed as indicated by the pre-war intelligence. Saddam was required to “immediately, unconditionally, and actively” (UNSCR 1441) account for all aspects of Iraq’s WMD in conformity with the “governing standard of Iraqi compliance” (UNSCR 1441) set by UNSCR 687 and reinforced by UNSCR 1441, not merely allow the UN inspectors to search Iraq for WMD.
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The role of the UN inspectors was not to search Iraq for WMD, but rather to certify whether Iraq had provided a “full and verified” (UNSCR 1441) “declaration of the locations, amounts and types of all items specified” (UNSCR 687) to account for Iraq’s entire WMD-related program, “yield[ed]” (UNSCR 687) all proscribed items for “destruction, removal, or rendering harmless, under international supervision” (UNSCR 687), and “unconditionally undertake[n] not to use, develop, construct or acquire any of the [proscribed] items” (UNSCR 687).
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UNSCR 1441 was “determined to ensure full and immediate compliance by Iraq without conditions or restrictions with its obligations”. The UNMOVIC Cluster Document finding of “about 100 unresolved disarmament issues” was conclusive that Iraq had not disarmed as mandated by UNSCR 687, which confirmed Iraq remained in material breach for casus belli. The Saddam regime failed to satisfy even the baseline-setting step of the declare/yield/eliminate-under-international-supervision disarmament process, a verified total declaration that accounted for Iraq’s entire WMD-related program, which Iraq was supposed to provide within 15 days – in 1991.“
Without the ingenuity of the Americans and the English, these animals would still be living in the squalor that is natural to them. The worst of it is, that there is enough oil in the United States to make us completely independent of them.
The idea, I think, would be to jettison the Israeli lobby who would like us to clean up after them indefinitely, and to let the Middle East go up in flames. It would be no loss.
stevegroen:
“evidentiary clues to the presence of WMD”
Indeed, the evidence shows the Saddam regime’s material breach of the “governing standard of Iraqi compliance” (UNSCR 1441) for the Gulf War ceasefire (WMD) disarmament mandates was decided by the UN Security Council, confirmed by UNMOVIC, and corroborated by the Iraq Survey Group.
According to the law and the facts, the decision for OIF was correct – Saddam was guilty on WMD among his failure to provide the obligated “full and immediate compliance by Iraq without conditions or restrictions with its obligations under resolution 687 (1991) and other relevant resolutions” (UNSCR 1441).
See the answers to “What were President Bush’s alternatives with Iraq?” & “Why did Bush leave the ‘containment’ (status quo)?” and the answers to “Did Bush lie his way to war with Iraq?” & “Was Operation Iraqi Freedom legal?”.
Eric, arguing Saddam breached an agreement is a bit different than providing “evidentiary clues to the presence of WMD.” The reason that war was approved by Congress wasn’t because of a security council vote but because the three wiseguys at the top and the shill operating as Secretary of State argued that everyone should trust their bogus evidence.
Look at the timeline between Saddam’s declaration that he was no longer going to use petrodollars but use the Euro in trading Iraqi oil and when we began sorties in 2003.
I hope the Saudis counter with truth! The perpetrators are trying to hang it on them.
Maybe the Saudis fear that the secrets of their ability to build and fly planes that melt into steel and glass buildings as though the buildings were made out of “I can’t believe it’s not butter” will be revealed.
Or, maybe they’re protecting the business dealings between the bin Laden and bush families & fear the Royal family name will become mud – if the U.S. tries to include THEM as fellow Patsies of Usama.
A dog indeed!
A good dog ain’t gonna be tricked off the scent.
This is another Israeli / Zionist Jew red herring like their ‘Iran ordered to pay $10.5 billion for 9/11’ Smoke and mirrors. They wrote the lying 9/11 Commission Report.
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/US-Campaign-2016/2016/04/18/id/724427/?ns_mail_uid=7153752&ns_mail_job=1664243_04182016&s=al&dkt_nbr=gryhqlg5
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is backing legislation that would let Americans sue Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The bill is opposed by the Obama administration. But’s important to families of 9/11 victims, some of whom believe Saudi officials played some part in the attacks.
#FeeltheBern
spiral007:
Yes, absolutely there are members of both sides of the Duopoly who spend like maniacs.
I am a fiscal conservative. Whom do you see fighting to rein in spending, balance budgets, and against raising the debt ceiling? Because it sure as heck isn’t the Liberals. Fiscal conservative Democrats are swept away, but they do exist. Anytime a Republican or Libertarian tries to control spending, there is a deluge of attacks like “you hate the poor.” Our President shut down the government rather than control the spending addiction.
Well, you reap what you sow.
For tax-and-spend Democrats, and some Republicans who turned their backs on fiscal conservatism, you were warned and begged for years to stop spending beyond your means.
To think of what we could do with the mind boggling amount of money that we are now bound to pay on interest alone…to think of how we’ve saddled our children, our grandchildren, and our great-great-great grandchildren with the debt of our out of control spending…and to think that the youngest generation keeps voting to continue those policies, lacking the point of view of its consequences.
How much good could all that money have accomplished? Whenever I hear of a program running out of money, I can’t help but think of the literally billions of dollars we waste annually on interest alone.
Sad.
Former Israeli Minister Shulamit Aloni;
“Anti-semitic”, “its a trick we always use it”
“to justify everything we do to the Palestinians”
More evidence for the proposition that “Israel did 9/11”
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it
http://buenavistamall.com/Israeldid9112.jpg
Mossad – The Israeli Connection To 911
http://www.rense.com/general64/moss.htm
By Christopher Bollyn
http://buenavistamall.com/bollyn.jpg
US assets? B.S.! Its corporate assets and we know how much corporations care about us. Call their bluff, sell the assets, arrest the Saudi royals, give ’em a little Gitmo till they implicate Cheney, Rumsfeld, Meyers etc. in the 911 attacks. If you want to see the Saudis involvement in 911 read Sen. Bob Graham’s “Security Matters.”
Jewish Senator Al Franken Admits Being Warned About 9-11 Beforehand
http://buenavistamall.com/AlFranken2.jpg
“TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, I GOT THE JEW CALL.”
In his book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Sen. Al Franken admits to having been warned not to go to work at the World Trade Center on 9-11. Why have the government and “free press” in the United States not investigated this report? Senator Al Franken admits in his book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003), that he received a call from the former mayor of New York, Ed Koch, warning him not to go to his office in the World Trade Center on 9-11, using the Hebrew calendar as a reference for the date, which was September 11, 2001.
Franken refers to this warning call as the “Jew call.”
“Al”, he told me, “don’t go to work on the twenty-third day of Elul.” Al Franken may have been a comedian who went to Washington, but this is not funny. Being forewarned about 9-11 is a criminal matter. Calls to Sen. Al Franken’s office in Washington at (202) 224-5641, were not answered, although they were made during working hours. Furthermore, Franken’s press secretary, Michael Dale Stein at (202) 224-4645, did not answer either his office phone or his mobile phone during business hours. Stein’s mobile phone said the mail box was empty so messages could not even be left. This is representative democracy?
The following text from Franken’s book is clear: he was warned in advance by Mayor Ed Koch, a fellow Jew
http://buenavistamall.com/Franken_on_911_Warning.jpg
Some are calling us anti-Semitic but they are trying to obfuscate and cover up murder evidence.
Murder evidence is not anti-Semitic.
Israelis forewarned of 9/11 attacks – ODIGO INSTANT MESSAGES
Many Israelis maybe thousands, who worked in the WTC, were evidently forewarned of the attacks hours before they occurred through an Israeli instant messaging service called Odigo. This is very clear evidence of Israeli prior knowledge of 9/11 attacks
http://www.haaretz.com/odigo-says-workers-were-warned-of-attack-1.70579
Lisa N.
The 9/11 families want to see the 28 pages and so do I. We all deserve to see them.
ISIS was created by the US. A part of USG still gives them funding. In general, USG funds every side of every conflict. The USG is working on a mini nuclear bomb, one that it hopes will make a nuclear attack more comfortable to the US public. So yes, there is a lot of scary stuff going on around the world.
While there are many bad actors in the world, the revelation of these 28 pages is still necessary for the American people
It’s just my opinion but please sell your assets and hope China or Japan doesn’t buy them.
I’m with the 9/11 families, however, suing the Saudi government will garner zero. Has Libya ever paid the victims of that Lockerbie flight, they were responsible for blowing up?
I think they should be exposed for their hatred of America. This could cause an Article 5 convention and the generals could take command, if that’s what the states want.
Playing paddie cake with the Middle East hasn’t worked and never will. These people teach hatred of the west in their schools from day one. But Obama in his great wisdom gave Iran the deal if a lifetime. Don’t think for a minute, they will do their best to use all that we gave them, against us. These terrorist Arab states are treacherous lying western haters and they will try to send a nuclear bomb our way soon. It will be Syria first. Thank you Obama and company for that and thanks Bush and company for protecting these murderous accomplices of the 9/11 attack.
http://m.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/WATCH-Islamic-Jihad-video-shows-child-beheading-his-teddy-bear-413079#article=10374NzUxNkYzODc4RTJFRjMxN0I2ODcxQkMzODQzOUE5NTA=