Sept. 11 families can't sue kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The Limits of Power: Andrew Bacevich on the End of American Exceptionalism / August 20, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/6nwad2
Andrew Bacevich is a conservative historian who spent twenty-three years serving in the US Army. He also lost his son in Iraq last year. In a new book titled The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Bacevich argues that although many in this country are paying a heavy price for US domestic and foreign policy decisions, millions of Americans simply continue to shop, spend and satisfy their appetite for cheap oil, credit and the promise of freedom at home. Bacevich writes,“As the American appetite for freedom has grown, so too has our penchant for empire.”
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The Way of the World: Ron Suskind on How the Bush Admin Deliberately Faked an Iraq-al-Qaeda Connection and Undermined Diplomacy, Democracy in Pakistan and Iran / August 13, 2008
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Judiciary Committee say they will review allegations the White House ordered the CIA to forge and disseminate false intelligence documents linking al-Qaeda and Iraq. The revelation is among several in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind’s explosive new book, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism. Suskind joins us for the hour to talk about the letter controversy and the thin denials that have followed its disclosure. He also reveals details of his lengthy conversations with the late Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto and her frustrations with the Bush administration in the months before her assassination, and discloses the previously unknown case of an interrogation “cell” beneath the White House
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Talk about absolute power of the Arab tyrants over the world and the Arab peasants.

How Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar Muscled Tony Blair Into Silence.

Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 5:49 PM ET Jul 30, 2008

The United Kingdom's highest court today provided new details of how the Saudis pressured British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to shut down a politically embarrassing bribery investigation two years ago that implicated the Saudi ambassador to Washington. The ruling, by a House of Lords judicial panel, offers an unusually revealing window into how international power politics is played in the post-9/11 era.

The five-member panel recounts how Blair, faced with Saudi threats to cut off cooperation on counterterrorism operations, personally intervened to scuttle a criminal investigation into billions of dollars in allegedly improper payments made by British Aerospace Systems (BAE) to obtain Saudi contracts.(cont..

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Bandar, a longtime close personal friend of the Bush family who is now national-security adviser to Saudi King Abdullah, was so worried about investigations into the BAE payments that last year he hired the international legal and security firm Freeh Group International, headed by former FBI director Louis Freeh, to defend him from the charges. Among the Freeh Group's partners is Sir Stephen Mitchell, a prominent British barrister and former High Court judge. In addition, Bandar has hired William Bradford Reynolds, a former top official in the Reagan Justice Department, to represent him in a private shareholder lawsuit relating to the alleged improper payments..... excerpt

Wow, Saudi Arabia threatened to quit cooperating with Britian if Prince Bandar was investigated for corruption.

Did you pick up on the fact that Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI, is representing Prince Bandar?

Wow, the Prince Bandar scandal at BAE gets even worse.

Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI and William Bradford Jenkins (R) head div. civil rights attorney for the Reagan Administration are representing Prince Bandar against the Michigan employees pension fund.

Those two have sold their souls to the devil for money- excerpt below

'A U.S. court recently froze Bandar's American assets after a Michigan pension fund with holdings in BAE sued to recover $2 billion in bribes the company had allegedly paid Bandar since 1986. Noting that Bandar had recently sold at least three U.S. properties that it claimed were purchased with BAE bribe money, the pension fund earlier this year persuaded U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer to issue a temporary injunction banning Bandar from selling any more U.S.-based property while the order is in force.(Bandar allegedly sold two residences in Aspen, Colo., one for $8.6 million and another for $3.925 million, according to court papers filed by the pension fund's lawyers. According to the court documents, Bandar still owns his sprawling Hala Ranch, a 95-acre property in Aspen said to feature 15 bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, a private barbershop and beauty salon, its own sewage treatment plant, sculpture gardens, fish ponds, ski trails, a massive hot tub and a barbecue pit large enough to roast goats. The property was valued at $135 million in 2006.)

Bandar is represented in the pension fund lawsuit by William Bradford Reynolds, the chief of the Justice Department's civil rights division during the Reagan administration. Reynolds did not respond immediately to a message from NEWSWEEK requesting comment.'

How low, how unpatriotic do you have to be to defend AGAINST hard working Americans getting their pension funds ripped off?

The Prince and the Prime Minister
A British court slams Bandar and the Brits.

Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 6:26 PM ET Apr 16, 2008

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