President Barack Obama is set to veto a bill that would allow the families of victims of September 11th sue Saudi Arabia for their country’s role in the deadly terror attack that killed over 3,000 Americans.
In doing so, Obama is defying both the will of the American people and a bipartisan Congressional effort for justice — but there’s still a chance for justice.
Unlike most of Obama’s executive actions, this veto is unpopular with both liberals and conservatives — and should outraged citizens put enough pressure on their representatives, it’s possible Congress could see enough votes to overturn the president’s veto.
The House passed the legislation by voice vote two weeks ago, approximately four months after the measure cleared the Senate despite vehement objections from Saudi Arabia. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals.
The legislation would give victims’ families the right to sue in U.S. court for any role that elements of the Saudi government may have played in the 2001 attacks that killed thousands in New York, the Washington, D.C., area and Pennsylvania.
The White House has signaled Obama would veto the legislation over the potential for it to backfire and apprehension about undermining a longstanding yet strained relationship with a critical U.S. ally in the Middle East. The Obama administration has warned that if U.S. citizens can take the Saudis to court, then a foreign country could in turn sue the United States.
Texas Rep. Ted Poe said the U.S. government should be more concerned about the families of the victims than “diplomatic niceties.” Poe said he doesn’t know if the Saudi government had a role in the Sept. 11 attacks.
“That’s for a jury of Americans to decide,” Poe said.
Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, both Democrats, called on Obama to sign the bill. “If Saudi Arabia had no involvement with the attacks, it has nothing to fear from litigation,” they wrote in a letter Friday.
The bill’s proponents disputed the argument that there will be a boomerang effect if the measure is signed into law. New York Rep. Peter King, another sponsor, said foreign governments cannot look the other way if terrorist activities are being plotted or launched from their countries.
Terry Strada, national head of 9/11 Families United For Justice Against Terrorism, dismissed fears the U.S. could be the target of lawsuits.
“If we’re not funding terrorist organizations and killing people, then we don’t have anything to worry about,” she said.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
What do you…..( The American People ) expect from a person who has committed TREASON time and time again…. against the United States of America…..Obama needs to be HUNG.
Farmer John you hit all this with the kind of comments they deserve…no question he is the worst president the US has had in decades
yeiayel, hate to burst your bubble but as of present he has a popularity rating of over 52% so that means he is not the worst president in decades Bush still holds that title.
Don’t ask me how but according to the media and their so called polls he is running with 52% approval rating
Just wait for his actions in the next 90 days, his popularity will plummet due to is evil and corrupt actions.
However- how was the conducted and by who?
That explains why the pollers never call me. The numbers are small and come from WHERE?
Al Sharpton,,loui farrencon ,,black lies matter..and so forth..
They do not call me either
PI, the media and their so called polls ARE bought and paid for by hussein and his minions.
In due time it will be known troughout history that obama will be the worst ever, president of the US.
obama should be indicted, tried in court of law and charged with treason to this country,
What a dum ass
What are you smoking
The med I a and their polls simply call only obuma supporters and the author their numbers for the rest of us who they will never call because our truth will destroy their objective of making obuma loved !! NOT
not decades – worst EVER is more like it !!!!!!!!!! Rob 72 and Someone is also lying about a 52% favorable rating .He’s lucky if it’s over 35%
I’m not so sure the polls can be believed.
A group of university students ran their own private poll of 25,000 people (almost half Democrats, almost half Republicans, and the difference independents).
The result was that Trump was at something like 70%, WAAAAAY beyond what the usual polls have been saying.
These pollsters felt that the difference was that the responders remained anonymous, and many people don’t want to have to deal with the backlash of it being known that they support Trump.
I’ve lost count of the number of people who have called into Rush’s or Sean Hannity’s radio shows in the last few weeks saying that the neighborhoods they would have expected to be littered with Hillary signs are instead covered with Trump signs.
I suspect that many of the usual polls are part of a huge effort to help the mainstream media and George Soros and the Muslims put their friend Hillary into office.
He is the worst president the US has ever had by far. As bad as Jimmy Carter was he doesn’t even come close to Obama
Or maybe the worst non-president the US has ever had. I can’t wait for Trump to have those records unsealed, and to have Congress and a non-Muslim, non-Marxist Attorney General deal with anyone that destroys the records rather than turning them over.
I agree and the sooner the better.
I agree with you and the sooner the better. Take all of his appointees along with him.
Obama’s actions say more than his words. His actions for the last almost 8 years have supported Islam and the Arab States. He is not about to turn against them as that may be where he ends up since his welcome in the USA will be not wanted any other place than south side Chicago.
so has clinton wirh giving classified information for cash to terroist leaders, her justice is near
Farmer John, good luck suing a mid-eastern country who will merely ignore you. I think Obama sees this as another grandstanding effort by Congress who are too busy to do real work. Whether you sympathize with the victims or not this bill will make no difference.
Oracle guy must be a RAGHEAD….!
Please excuse him for his STUPID comments.
He supports Hillary, who supports Muslims who have no problem with females being mutilated, therefore he supports Muslim female mutilation.
Do we need any more information on him?
I will supply the rope.
I agree with you; but the word is “hanged”. Justice is coming to the Tyrant. He just doesn’t know it yet.
What do you expect from a traitor.This so called president Obama is as much a Terroist ISIS because he has done everything he could to bring down this country.He became president not to make things better but to destroy this great country.The only reason is going to veto the bill because he doesn’t want to piss off his Muslim buddies
Amen amen and amen
The Obamas, the Clintons, Loretta Lynch, Comey, should all be sued with a class action suit signed electronically by all american citizens who think the above mentioned have done harm to this nation.???
And damn quick !! That BASTARD is going to cause another CIVIL or REVOLUTIONARY WAR !! ESPECIALLY IF HITLERY ROD-IN-YOU CORUPTION WINS THIS DAMN RACE !! TO ADD, LORETTA LYNCH THINKS THAT EVERY PERSON INTHIS COUNTRY IS DUMBER THAN OWL SHIT !!!!
Here is what I think, believe wha you will. Obama will not release the 28 pages held
captive by government hat bring Saudi Arabia clearly into the attack is that HRC name
appears in those papers and (he Big O) will do anything short of murder to protect his
next four year term through his advocate HRC
That STINKING N–ophyte obama is doing ALL in his power to DESTROY America. EVERY TRUE AMERICAN must help vote these DEMORATS OUT , and get TRUMP elected. OTHERWISE, WE ARE DOOMED.
Obama is a real and present danger to the USA and the Abram Lincoln solution seems the be all that we can hope for.
Nothing this disgraceful excuse for a human being should surprise anyone any more
That’s no way to talk about Farmer John. He’s quite wrong but hardly disgraceful.
Hey Oracle guy….Take a log walk off a short pier MORON….!
Farmer John is not the person being talked about !!! What kind of Oracle guy are you??? You can’t even see who the subject of this post is !!! So I doubt you can see that Trump acutely won last year and nov. Is just the icing on the cake for him !!!!
He knows that.
Just remember that he supports female mutilation by Muslims, through supporting the Muslim sympathizer, Hillary Clinton.
Isn’t that all we need to know about Ø Guy?
this just proves that obama is paid for by the rag head sa
Obama is a disgrace to America!
Amazing after all he is the best ally the Muslim world could expect.
Why isn’t the Secret Service taking the lead on this? They could arrest them all for treason.
Maybe that is exactly what it is SECRET SERVICE **********see no evil*********hear no evil**********speak no evil*******
I would suspect that the SS’s allegiance is to the president, not to the U.S. Possibly even to the Office; that would explain why they’ve done nothing despite the damning evidence about Obama’s past and the bearing it has on his current situation.
I find it difficult to understand how an ostensibly intelligent nation like the US could ever allowed a bloody muslim to stand for a scout troop, let alone for POTUS. That was bad enough, but they elected the bucket of pig’s droppings TWICE! Wake up America while there is still an America to live in. If you don’t vote for Donald Trump you won’t be able to vote for anything or anyone, because you will have destroyed democracy if you vote for Buttercup Lady MacBeth Lucrezia Borgia Clinton. Just a thought to lighten the atmosphere a bit. If she gets in, will the presidential aircraft be swopped for a broomstick?
No it will be swapped for a stealth bomber with which she can continue obama’s “legacy” by bombing citizens of the USA who she deems enemies and other countries which she considers enemies including our friends which have always been our friends but not hers…just saying…
Thanks to all the Naive Uninformed who voted for Barack Obama
I call them the “Insistently Ignorant.”
They don’t want to know the truth any more than heroin addicts want to hear how bad heroin is.
What is wrong with people that support Obama and support this scam woman ? Do they drink radon poisoned water all the time?
I agree, there are times I wonder how many if any of some people brain cells actually communicate with each other!
I agree, sometimes I wonder how many of these people’s brain cells actually communicate with each other!
The article is calling for an outrage of citizens to put pressure on their representatives so they will override his veto.
I think there has been more outrage from citizens to throw Hillary in jail and to try Obama for treason but as with everything else in gov’t nothing happens as will be the same with this.
Why would Obama not veto it, hell he just gave Iran 1.7 billion in cash that should not have happened and out of all the refugees he has allowed in this country only 1% were Christians while the rest were Muslims.
You folks are crazy to think that a couple of planes brought down the twin towers and building 7 and that Saudi Arabia was responsible. Those buildings collapsed due to controlled demolition. Our government (Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.) along with Israel planned this event. Wake up to the truth.
That makes a great fairy tale.
Actually (although I have no love for the Saudis), I read a very convincing engineering report on that, which says the same thing.
Remember, Building 7 wasn’t even hit by a plane, but inexplicably went down in exactly the same manner as the Twin Towers did.
I forgot to add that the owner of Building 7 had very recently insured it for a bundle, and was able to collect a small fortune from its destruction.
How very convenient and coincidental!
Bullshit,
Leave Israel out of it.
You’re Fucking nuts to think it was Israel that did this.
It wasn’t.
This was carefully orchestrated by The Saudis and yes it was the Muslim Terrorists who did this to the Twin towers.
And Bush Jr. allowed it to happen to appease the Saudis because the United States of Islamerica buys their oil from this Middle Eastern country.
That’s why he attacked Iraq and not Saudi Arabia.
Bill Clinton was the one who allowed these Muslim Terrorists into The United States of Islamerica, and the illegal immigration of these Muslim Terrorists continued with The Obamanation Administration.
Obama and his family and the Clintons will be burning in hell one day soon.
You reap what you sow.
This is civil war that is happening now in The United States of Islamerica.
It’s time to get yourself prepared, because the shit is going to be flying everywhere soon too.
Wake up people.
It’s a war against us Non Muslims.
It’s either Us or Them now.
And the truth shall set you free.
Satan came to this world steal, (Obama stealing our constitutional rights, freedoms, and justice) to kill (obama and his support to abortion of innocents thru plan parenthood) and to destroy (obama destroying moral values and decency of this country with his support to LGBT).
Oh yea, the devil is reigning on this country in the WH, and a lot of people just don’t know it.
Obama isn’t Satan, or he could give a speech without a teleprompter.
Allah is Satan, and I wonder if Islam won’t turn out to be the Antichrist, rather than an individual.
President Obama does have a point. Once we begin suing other nations we can expect the same thing to happen to us. The goal on allowing Americans to sue foreign countries for their support of terrorism is good. Once the tradition of not suing other countries is gone, people in other nations may sue us for reasons other than terrorism. Some of these countries could sue us for damages caused by our fighting wars in their countries or our support of a now deposed leader.
The best way to deal with Saudi Arabia is to become energy independent. Once we stop buying their oil a lot of things will change.
We should have become independent from Arab oil back in the 70’s. They were coming up with new ideas, then the politicians kissed and made up, got us all hooked back on the oil and all our so called “representatives” Republican and Democrat alike became very wealthy. They making too much money to give up now. Hillary has said that she wants to make the U.S. totally using 100% solar power. There was also another article that talked about how much the Clinton Foundation has invested in solar development.
The powers that be area going to do whatever it takes to keep us from being energy independent.
They started long ago, with Nikola Tesla.
That should have been “aren’t” not “area” – it’s been a long, difficult day!
this is not Obama’s country. isis is & Islamic state is. take him out.
Absolutely love this site: As for Hillary and Obama…they both need to be jailed! No doubt about it!! Hillary lied about the emails as noted on the telly from a man at the top…he gave the number of emails with classified info on them! As for Obama…the ONLY reason he got elected is because he is black!! I pray that Donald Trump gets in the White House!