Saudi Arabia threatens to pull $750bn from U.S.
economy if Congress allows them to be sued for 9/11 terror attacks
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Congress rejects Obama veto of 9/11 bill; first override of his presidency
Donovan Slack and Brian J. Tumulty, USA TODAY 6:20 p.m. EDT September 28, 2016
In a 97-1 vote, the Senate acted decisively
Wednesday to override President Barack Obama's
veto of Sept. 11 legislation that would allow
families of victims to sue Saudi Arabia for the
kingdom's alleged backing of the hijackers. (Sept. 28) AP
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/28/senate-poised-override-obama-veto-911-bill-allowing-saudi-suits/91184976/
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate voted Wednesday
to reject President Obama's veto of legislation
allowing lawsuits against foreign sponsors of
terrorism — the first successful override of a
presidential veto since Obama took office.
The president had vetoed the legislation Friday
because he said the bill — known as the Justice
Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA —
would infringe on the president’s ability to
conduct foreign policy. It was the 12th veto of his presidency.
But after an intense push by 9/11 survivors and
families of victims who want to sue Saudi Arabia
based on claims the country played a role in the
2001 terror attacks, even Obama’s Democratic
allies on Capitol Hill voted to override his veto.
The House voted 348-77, well above the two-thirds
majority needed. The final vote tally in the
Senate was 97-1. Minority Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nev., cast the lone dissenting vote.
"In our polarized politics of today, this is
pretty much close to a miraculous occurrence,"
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said. Democrats and
Republicans in both chambers agreed, he said,
that the bill "gives the victims of the terrorist
attack on our own soil an opportunity to seek the justice they deserve."
The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee said he shared some of Obama's concerns
but said the victims' rights outweighed them.
"We cannot in good conscience close the
courthouse door to those families who have
suffered unimaginable losses," Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said.
Obama told CNN on Wednesday that he thinks
overriding his veto was a "mistake" and
"basically a political vote." But he said he
understood why Congress voted the way it did,
despite what he suggested were private misgivings among some lawmakers.
“If you're perceived as voting against 9/11
families right before an election, not
surprisingly, that's a hard vote for people to
take," he said. "But it would have been the right thing to do."
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest decried
the override as the "single most embarrassing
thing the United States Senate has done possibly since 1983."
"Ultimately these senators are going to have to
answer their own conscience and their
constituents as they account for their actions
today," he said, adding that Reid showed "courage" in opposing it.
The measure essentially creates an exception to
sovereign immunity, the doctrine that holds one
country can’t be sued in another country’s
courts. It allows plaintiffs to sue other nations
in U.S. federal courts for monetary damages in
cases of injury, death or property damage caused
by acts of international terrorism in the United States.
The White House has argued that the legislation
will prompt other nations to retaliate, stripping
the immunity the United States enjoys in other
parts of the world. Obama said in a letter to
Reid before Wednesday's vote that lawsuits
already are allowed against countries designated
as state sponsors of terrorism by the U.S. government.
The president warned the law could be
"devastating" to the U.S. military, diplomatic and intelligence communities.
"The United States relies on principles of
immunity to prevent foreign litigants and foreign
courts from second-guessing our counter-terrorism
operations and other actions that we take every day," he wrote.
Former ambassador to the United Nations John
Bolton and former U.S. Attorney Michael Mukasey,
both of whom served under President George W.
Bush, have echoed similar concerns in recent weeks.
“An errant drone strike that kills non-combatants
in Afghanistan could easily trigger lawsuits
demanding that U.S. military or intelligence
personnel be hauled into foreign courts,” Bolton
and Mukasey wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this month.
But proponents of the law maintain that it is
narrowly tailored, and some lawmakers who said
they still had doubts before Wednesday's vote
said they would monitor any possible fallout and
pass new legislation fixing any problems that arise.
Two dozen 9/11 families gathered in the Senate
and House public galleries Wednesday to watch the override votes.
“This is what we have been fighting for over a
decade,’’ said Terry Strada, national chairwoman
of the 9/11 Families & Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism.
The legislation provides the green light to
several lawsuits — consolidated into one case on
behalf of 9/11 victims and several insurance
companies — as lawyers attempt to prove Saudi
government involvement in the terrorist plot.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who flew planes into
the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a
Pennsylvania field on 9/11 were Saudi nationals.
The 9/11 commission did not find any proof of
Saudi government involvement, but the families
still want to examine any possible links not yet uncovered.
“I don’t think anybody should ever have any
immunity for what happened on 9/11," said Lorie
Van Auken, whose husband worked for Cantor
Fitzgerald and died in the attack on the World
Trade Center. "It’s about justice. It’s about
where this will lead us. It’s not about money."
In his unusual three-page veto message to
Congress last week, Obama said he has "deep
sympathy" for the families of victims of terrorism.
"I recognize that there is nothing that could
ever erase the grief the 9/11 families have
endured," Obama wrote. "Enacting JASTA into law,
however, would neither protect Americans from
terrorist attacks nor improve the effectiveness
of our response to such attacks."
So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish
participation in Bormann companies that when
Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv
to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the
Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires.
Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities
in no uncertain terms that this must never happen
again because a repetition would permanently
rupture relations with the Germans of Latin
America, as well as with the Bormann
organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish
money to Israel. It never happened again, and the
pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of
these Jewish leaders. He is residing in an
Argentinian safe haven, protected by the most
efficient German infrastructure in history as
well as by all those whose prosperity depends on his well-being.
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