The Prince is being sued by the fiancé of the Washington Post journalist that was killed on what US Intelligence says was the Prince’s orders……..
The American President IS a tough spot…
In the interest ‘s of American and World National Security and Economic (Oil) needs?
America WILL maintain friendly relations with the Saudi’s…
The President has no other choice….
This runs counter to outrage as the efforts of the Saudi’s efforts to suppress any sort hard look at their country and their policies and actions….
Just as America still has realations with Russia while supporting the Ukraine…
It will do the same for the Saudi’s….
A Federal judge will have the last say on this….
But the judge , while following the law, will be well aware of his government’s postion on this….
And will have to deal with the concept of ‘Sovereign Immunity’, which protects American leaders from legal reaching in other countries….
The Biden administration statement Thursday noted visa restrictions and other penalties that it had meted out to lower-ranking Saudi officials in the death.
“From the earliest days of this Administration, the United States Government has expressed its grave concerns regarding Saudi agents’ responsibility for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder,” the State Department said. Its statement did not mention the crown prince’s own alleged role.
Biden as a candidate vowed to make a “pariah” out of Saudi rulers over the 2018 killing of Khashoggi.
“I think it was a flat-out murder,” Biden said in a 2019 CNN town hall, as a candidate. “And I think we should have nailed it as that. I publicly said at the time we should treat it that way and there should be consequences relating to how we deal with those — that power.”
But Biden as president has sought to ease tensions with the kingdom, including bumping fists with Prince Mohammed on a July trip to the kingdom, as the U.S. works to persuade Saudi Arabia to undo a series of cuts in oil production.
Khashoggi’s fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, and DAWN sued the crown prince, his top aides and others in Washington federal court over their alleged roles in Khashoggi’s killing. Saudi Arabia says the prince had no direct role in the slaying…
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Update…
Sens. Tom Cotton and Mark Warner defended the Biden administration’s assertion Thursday that the Saudi crown prince should be shielded from lawsuits stemming from the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Speaking to host Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday,” Cotton (R-Ark.) said: “What the administration decided this week in granting sovereign immunity to Mohammed bin Salman is in keeping with the practice of, custom of lawsuits involving foreign heads of state. It would have been a break of those customs to not grant that kind of immunity.”…
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