<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><i>Que se vayan todos.</i><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">info@justforeignpolicy.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:57 AM<br>Subject: ProPublica: USG knew Saudi regime helped criminal suspects flee US, did nothing<br>To: <<a href="mailto:naiman.uiuc@gmail.com" target="_blank">naiman.uiuc@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px">From 1945 until this week, every U.S. presidential Administration, whether “Democratic” or “Republican,” has sheltered the intimate relationship of the Saudi regime to the U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment from democratic transparency and accountability to the U.S. public. Whether it was <b>Saudi regime liability for the 9/11 attacks that killed three thousand innocent American civilians</b>, or the <b>Saudi regime's deliberate imposition of famine on children in Yemen</b>, there's been a huge asterisk next to the Constitution, democracy and the rule of law in the United States: ”*<i>Not applicable if it might interfere with the intimate relationship between the Saudi regime and the U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment</i>.” </p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px">Until this week, it hasn't made a meaningful difference if it was "Trump-Pence" or "Obama-Biden" or "Bush-Cheney" or “Clinton-Gore.” Tweedledum or Tweedledee, <b>the intimate relationship between the Saudi regime and U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment has remained the same</b>. It’s not that all Democrats and Republicans have agreed that the U.S. must always back the Saudi regime to the hilt. Plenty of Democrats and Republicans have dissented from that. It’s that <b>those dissenters haven’t been allowed to change the course of U.S. policy</b>. </p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px"><b>But maybe that could change this week.</b> There's a first time for everything. You never know which straw will be the one that takes down the camel. <b>This week, Senate Republicans have an opportunity to do the right thing</b> and <b>override Trump’s “veto” of the Bernie Sanders-Mike Lee-Chris Murphy bill</b> to end unconstitutional U.S. participation in the Saudi regime’s war in Yemen. And <b>Senate Republicans did the right thing on the U.S.-Saudi relationship once before</b> – when they <b>voted to override Obama’s veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act</b>, thereby enabling 9/11 families to sue the Saudi regime for complicity in the 9/11 attacks. </p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=APRwFF0t5h7qzzBXSqlja5Cujh3k4AGq" target="_blank"><b>Urge Senate Republicans to do the right thing now, overriding the “veto” so that children in Yemen may live.</b></a></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px">News reports that <b>the intimate relationship between the Saudi regime and the U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment isn’t in the interests of the majority of Americans</b> keep piling up. </p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px">On Friday, <i>ProPublica</i> reported [“<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oKEepRerbInjP2IOYz8nBpCujh3k4AGq" target="_blank"><b>Saudi Fugitives Accused of Serious Crimes Get Help to Flee While U.S. Officials Look the Other Way</b></a>”]: </p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px">“The government of Saudi Arabia has <b>repeatedly</b> helped Saudi citizens <b>evade prosecutors and the police in the United States and flee</b> back to their homeland after being <b>accused of serious crimes</b> here, <b>current and former U.S. officials</b> said. The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have been aware of the Saudi actions for <b>at least a decade, officials said</b>. But <b>successive American administrations</b> have avoided confronting the government in Riyadh...”It’s not that the issue of Saudi fugitives from the U.S. wasn’t important,” said retired FBI agent Jeffrey Danik, who served as the agency’s assistant legal attache in Riyadh from 2010 to 2012. <b>“It’s that the security relationship was <i>so much more</i> <i>important</i>.</b>”</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px">“American officials said <b>Saudi diplomats, intelligence officers and other operatives</b> have assisted in the <b>illegal flight of Saudi fugitives</b>, most of them university students, after they were charged with <b>crimes including rape and manslaughter</b>. The Saudis have bailed the suspects out of jail ... <b>arranged their travel home and covered their forfeited bonds</b>, the officials said.”</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px"> “Since late December, <b>Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat</b>, has pressed the departments of <b>State, Justice</b> and <b>Homeland Security</b> for information on the Saudi government’s actions in helping to repatriate Saudi students who faced criminal charges here... ‘Are you as disturbed as I am that <b>Saudi nationals have a get-out-of-jail-free card</b> that allows them to <b>commit abuses against children, manslaughter, rape</b> and have no accountability?’ Oregon’s other U.S. senator, <b>Jeff Merkley, also a Democrat</b>, asked.”</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uWlCJIt65mxmyq1ahAro%2BJCujh3k4AGq" target="_blank"><b>Read the <i>ProPublica</i> article in full.</b></a> </p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tQ8Z%2FJ5IzDKOD3YdHfn1gJCujh3k4AGq" target="_blank"><b>Sign the petition to the Senate, pressing for override of the "veto," so children in Yemen may live.</b></a> </p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.5em 0px 0px"><span style="color:rgb(54,49,53)">Thanks for all you do to help U.S. foreign policy become more just,</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(54,49,53)">Robert Naiman</span><font color="#363135"><span><br>
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