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This story from the Guardian seems to be a deliberate threat-by-leak from the Saudi royals: Make nice to us or we’ll go nuclear. No response from the White House, as far as I can tell. The timing couldn’t be better if Wesley Clark wants to make the Saudi issue against Bush.
Archive for the ‘Saudi war on America’ Category
September 11th, 2003
Category: Saudi war on America
David Plotz at Slate [*] has more about the revelations in Gerald Posner’s new book, Why America Slept. The fact that most Americans still blame Iraq and not Saudi Arabia for 9-11 is one of the things that make it hard to maintain a decent amount of democratic piety.
September 4th, 2003
Category: Saudi war on America
According to this Time Magazine story [*], based on forthcoming book by Gerald Posner, the Bush Administration continued to insinuate that Iraq was somehow responsible for the 9-11 massacres long after a top al-Qaeda captive had named the names of top Saudi and Pakistani officials who knew about the attacks in advance. I don’t know [...]
August 18th, 2003
Category: Saudi war on America
Good news: a quarter of the Americans who thought that Saudi Arabia was an “ally” or a “friendly” country in October of 2001 no longer think so. Bad news: that drop only brings the total down to 45%. That’s more than the 38% who think that the Kingdom is “unfriendly” or an “enemy;” 17% don’t [...]
August 12th, 2003
Category: Saudi war on America
Beldar, a blogger who is also a practicing lawyer, defends Jamie Gorelick’s service on the 9-11 Commission (here and here) as creating only a de minimus conflict with her firm’s representation of a Saudi prince accused of having helped finance and organize the massacre. He is confident that “Chinese Wall” procedures will keep anything Gorelick [...]
August 11th, 2003
Category: Saudi war on America
A reader who is also a member of one of the big law firms I excoriated for taking Saudi money * points out that both my current employer, the University of California, and my former employer, Harvard, have accepted of the Kingdom’s bounty for professorial chairs. He wants to know what I think about that. [...]
August 8th, 2003
Category: Saudi war on America
A story is told — a canonical one, I believe — of an insurance agent who served as the chair of the Insurance Committee of the Maryland House of Delegates. When a reporter dared to inquire about possible conflicts of interest, the legislator replied: “Whaddaya mean? It don’t conflict with my interest at all.” Dwitght [...]
August 7th, 2003
Category: Saudi war on America
Newsweek reports (*) that Baker, Botts — James Baker’s law firm — is defending Prince Sultan, the Saudi defense minister, against a lawsuit filed by families of the 9-11 victims. (Thanks to Tapped for the pointer.) Baker was last seen, you will recall, making sure that the votes didn’t get counted in Florida. One of [...]
August 5th, 2003
Category: Saudi war on America
Jane Galt objects to the release of the 28 censored pages about Saudi involvement in the 9-11 massacres on the grounds that, once we acknowledge publicly that the Saudi Royal Family was directly responsible for the murder of 3000 Americans, we will have no alternative but to go to war, conquer the Kingdom, and then [...]
August 5th, 2003
Category: Saudi war on America
Forty-six senators have signed a letter to the President (*) asking for release of the famous 28 pages of the 9-11 report Many of the signatures are illegible, but the ones I can read are all those of Democrats (including Kerry, Edwards, and Graham), except for Sam Brownback, who co-sponsored the letter with Chuck Schumer. [...]
