Why are these guys considered allies of the US? They sell us oil?
Obama Reveals Why Terror Victims Can’t Sue Saudi Arabiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZXq9w5CCmwPresident Obama was asked to discuss a bill that passed the Senate committee earlier this year that would allow the family members of individuals who were killed in terrorist attacks sponsored by foreign governments, to then sue those foreign governments. Currently you are not allowed to do that. This bill aims to change that and here is what Barack Obama thinks about it:
And what about this legislation in the congress that allow families to sue the Saudi government and other governments and different circumstances.
Obama: Exactly. I'm opposed because of that second clause in your sentence, and that is, this is not just a bilateral US-saudi issue this is a matter of how generally the United States approaches our interactions with other countries. If we open up the possibility that individuals in the United States can routinely start suing other governments, then we are also opening of the United States to being continually sued by individuals in other countries. And that would be a bad precedent, because we're the largest superpower in the world, and we are everywhere, and we are in people's business all the time. And if we are in a situation where we're suddenly being hauled into various courts, because of the claim that in some individuals been harmed, then that will tie us up and it could harm you US servicemen US diplomats
I think a family member of someone who died in 9/11, when they believe that there is good evidence that the Saudi's sponsored it. Now we don't necessarily have access to that evidence because it has been redacted in the 9/11 Commission Report, which we're going to have video for you on that in just a second. But we know from former US Senator Bob Graham was seen the pages as intelligence committee chair the pages that we don't have access to, he told 60 minutes that he believes the Saudi government did help the 9/11 hijackers, and so if that were the case not being able to get any sort of at least legal justice would be incredibly frustrating I would imagine what it does open up the door to a lot of other sorts of lawsuits if if or families and we had we lost three thousand people in 9/11
