In the wake of Wednesday’s high-profile veto override votes in the House and Senate, the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) became law, and with it, victims of 9/11 an
d their families gained the right to sue Saudi Arabia in US courts over their involvement in the lead-up to the attack.
Lawyers are scrambling to quickly file such suits today, and with good reason: Congressional leaders are already openly promising to totally revise JASTA, likely dramatically watering it down in such a way as to placate Saudi Arabia, which has been livid over the matter.
At least one bill was already filed today, in Washington D.C. by the widow of a Navy officer killed in the attack on the Pentagon. Other suits were in the process of being filed elsewhere, with an attorney from a New York firm predicting “the biggest docket of any piece of litigation in US or world history.”
Whether any of the cases see the light of day is another matter. The JASTA allows for the attorney general to request a 180 day stay of any lawsuits under JASTA, and senators are saying they believe the revisions will happen shortly after the November election, during the lame duck session.
This too is by design. Overwhelming public support obliged the House and Senate to override President Obama’s veto, coming so close to the election, but once everyone has cashed in on their vote in the election, many are only too eager to reverse course and get back to placating the Saudis.
The White House and Congress continue to spend time arguing over whose “fault” the passage of the legislation is, but the reality is that even this is just political theater, as there is every indication that the pieces are already falling into place to ensure that JASTA, even if it is the law of the land for now, will never amount to anything.
The senators didn’t dare vote against JASTA until after the nov election . Now Paul Ryan and some republican senators like Graham have promised Obama they will fix the JASTA bill so it can’t accomplish anything that the powers that be don’t want . Things like this is the very reason Donald Trump got the Nomination for the republican party The Political insiders have just been getting there way all the time and the voters can’t get the government to work for them at all . So it looks like they will have to try a outsider like Trump
I hope some lawyer has the balls to sue Israel and subpoena/extradite the four Mossad agents who were recording and celebrating 9/11.
Ricardo,
I think that you have touched on the “sore” point of JASTA that Obama and now Congress realizes – what is legal against Saudi Arabia will also be legal against Israel. Watch any “reform” of JASTA to exempt the real bastards from justice.
Exactly right – hopefully the 911 widows and all the others make sure that doesn’t happen
The Israel lobby is no longer tenable in the United States
You’ve nailed it. There are only a few people who it is verifiable knew it was a terror attack on 9/11 between the hit on the first tower and the hit on the second tower and they are all Israelis with Intel connections. Let it all hang out.
Spot on
You beat me to this. Exactly, Sue Israel . See those idiots in Congress squirm since they made it possible
They are going the wrong way. Sep 5, 2016 9/11 Suspects: Rudy Giuliani
Mayor Giuliani oversaw the illegal destruction of the 9/11 crime scene and is criminally liable for the deaths of hundreds of emergency workers for not passing on prior warnings about the collapses of the Twin Towers. It is no wonder, then, that the Fire Department of New York so passionately detest Giuliani for his actions in disgracing their fallen brothers and covering up the 9/11 crime.
https://youtu.be/Cl85JSvDmsA
May 07, 2014 The Oldest Trick In the Book: Empire Pretends It Has to Launch Wars to “Defend” Itself
Empires – almost by definition – fight imperial wars to gain land and resources. But if they admitted to their citizens what they were up to, people wouldn’t be that excited in sacrificing their families’ blood and treasure to fight a series of wars. So empires always pretend that they’re being attacked … and they are simply fighting to defend themselves. The ancient Roman leaders whined, “But we have to protect ourselves!” And every empire has done it since.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-oldest-trick-in-the-book-empire-pretends-it-has-to-launch-wars-to-defend-itself/5381067
January 11, 2016 U.S. Dropped 23,144 Bombs On Muslim-Majority Countries In 2015
Nobel Peace Prize-winner President Obama dropped a serious amount of ordnance last year. Council of Foreign Relations resident skeptic Micah Zenko recently tallied up how many bombs the United States has dropped on other countries and the results are as depressing as one would think. Zenko figured that since Jan. 1, 2015, the U.S. has dropped around 23,144 bombs on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, all countries that are majority Muslim.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/u-s-dropped-23144-bombs-on-muslim-majority-countries-in-2015/212638/
Overwhelming public support obliged the House and Senate to override President Obama’s veto, coming so close to the election, but once everyone has cashed in on their vote in the election, many are only too eager to reverse course……
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The official story of 9/11 is so fradulent from every and and every direction you wish to look at it. Start anywhere, pick any subtopic. How you can look at evidence of Saudi involvement, which may be a really big shock to everybody, except us 9/11 truthers where already keenly aware of 95% of what was in those 28 pages…any you want to look at ONLY the issue of Saudi involvement AND NOTHING ELSE?? Pleeezeeee. The issue of Saudi involvement is but only one chapter in a very thick book that completely contradicts the 9/11 Commission Report and reduces it to the absolute coverup that is was.
9/11 was an inside job! To argue otherwise requires you to twist yourself into a pretzel. The Saudi’s were merely subcontractors. They did not claim responsibility after the attacks and have denied denied denied. So what was thier motive then for attacking their biggest customer and defender of the Royal regime? How may billions and billions of dollars of weaponry have we armed Saudi Arabis with? Why in God’s name would they (secretly) attack us? Does that even make sense? And yet the evidence does indeed point to complicity of Prince Bantar (the forieign secretary at the time) and his wife (close friends of the Bush family ….google ‘Bandar Bush’ which was his nickname) of funneling money to the Saudi Nationals who provided material support to some of the ‘hijacker’ patsies.
You would have to be incredibly deaf, dumb and blind to believe the ‘official story’ of 9/11 put forth by the 9/11 Commission, the USG and the mainstream media.
When you manage to flub two basic and well-known facts in one post (it’s Bandar, not Bantar, and he was the Saudi ambassador to the US, not its foreign secretary — in fact, Saudi Arabia doesn’t have a position with that title), why should anyone take any of your other claims seriously?
I’ve never said this before and will never say it again, but just this once:
THANK GOD FOR FERAL LAWYERS. They know how to get things done.
The discovery process for JASTA is going to uncover the Israelis acting as the protective cocoon for the 911 plot
The Israelis have the Intelligence wired and were able to make sure the plot was able to advance – they should be sued right along with the Saudis
Take the money out of the ten year 38 billion MOU plan for good measure
Al Qaeda and ISIS – fully supported by Israel and Saudi Arabia
Israel*, ISIS and Saudi Arabia – the new axis of evil in the Middle East
ISIS is only the second major Israeli– Saudi operation, the first of which was of course 911 with Israel running interference for the Saudi jihadists
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It’s the most incredible twofer ever – the Saudi Israelia cat responsible for 9/11, neocon dovetailing of the Clean Break Plan into the Neocon GWOT, the near war with Iran, as well as ISIS
Both Israel and Saudi Arabia had to be taken down together
*Including the Israel Lobby/Jewish Lobby in the US, the spearhead of which is Hillary, Saban and her Neocons, as well as Trump and Adelson