This weekend's biggest, and most shocking story,
was the report that
in response to a proposed Congressional Bill that would allow a probe
into the Saudi role behind the Sept 11 terrorist attack, Saudi Arabia
had threatened the US with dumping its roughly $750 billion in Treasury
holdings.
What
was curious about the story is that while Saudi Arabia implicitly
admitted it had a role in the September 11, the Obama administration was
actively doing everything in its power to prevent the Bill from
passing, and thus to keep the truth under wraps, leading many to wonder
if Obama was more concerned about his own people or a handful of
uber-wealthy Saudi princes.
Moments ago White House spokesman Josh Earnest chimed in, and validated all of those fears.
- EARNEST: BILL WOULD OPEN U.S. TO GLOBAL LEGAL VULNERABILITIES
- WHITE
HOUSE SAYS IT IS CONFIDENT THAT SAUDIS RECOGNIZE THE SHARED INTEREST
WITH THE U.S. IN PROTECTING STABILITY OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM
- EARNEST: DON'T KNOW IF BILL WILL BE TOPIC ON OBAMA SAUDI VISIT
And the punchline:
- EARNEST COMMENTS ON BILL TO ALLOW LAWSUITS BY SEPT. 11 FAMILIES
- EARNEST SAYS BILL TO ALLOW LAWSUITS AGAINST SAUDI CONCERNING
- EARNEST: OBAMA WOULDN'T SIGN SUE-SAUDI BILL AS DRAFTED
In
short: whether due to the Saudi threat, or just because of its default
position on the matter, Obama will block the Bill and no further probes
into Saudi involvement in the Sept 11 tragedy will be allowed.
And
with that any concerns about whether the US president represents not
only the interests of the Sept 11 victims and their families, but all
all American people, and is intent on discovering who the real culprit
behind the deadliest terrorist attack on US soil, as opposed to the
interests of few Saudi billionaires and would much rather have the truth
remain suppressed in 28 top secret pages and certainly in the public
domain, were just answered.
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