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Title: Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits
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Published: May 12, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-05-12 10:03:28 by tom007
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Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits By John Byrne Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 -- 9:04 am submit to reddit Stumble This! 839Share 43diggsdigg elena kagan Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama's latest nominee to the Supreme Court, helped protect the Saudi royal family from lawsuits that sought to hold al Qaeda financiers responsible in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The suits were filed by thousands of family members and others affected by the Sept. 11 attacks. In court papers, they provided evidence that members of the Saudi royal family had channeled millions to al Qaeda prior to the bombings, often in contravention of direct guidance from the United States. But Kagan, acting as President Obama's Solicitor General, argued that the case should not be heard even if evidence proved that the Saudis helped underwrite al Qaeda, because it would interfere with US foreign policy with the oil-rich nation. She posited “that the princes are immune from petitioners’ claims” because of “the potentially significant foreign relations consequences of subjecting another sovereign state to suit.” In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer published Tuesday, the mother of a man who was killed on United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania said he didn't know why Kagan argued that the case not even be heard. By keeping the case off the dockets, the Saudis were spared scrutiny of their finances. "We had hoped she would be with us so that we could have our day in court," Beverly Burnett said. Story continues below... “I find this reprehensible,” said Kristen Breitweiser, another family member whose husband was killed in the 9/11 attacks, said at the time. “One would have hoped that the Obama administration would have taken a different stance than the Bush administration, and you wonder what message this sends to victims of terrorism around the world.” The Obama Administration's decision to intervene in the Saudi-al Qaeda case so irritated two Republican senators that they introduced legislation aiming to ensure that Americans have the ability to sue foreign governments. Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered a proposal to amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which Kagan cited as one reason the Saudi case should not be heard. Both senators said that US citizens should be able to sue foreign governments if they are found to be supporting terrorist activity. Specter, who has since become a Democrat, was unusually blunt. "She wants to coddle the Saudis," he said. ADVERTISEMENT
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
So Obama has nominated a person who says that even if the facts show that somebody is guilty of something, that the case should be denied on political reasons alone. How utterly Soviet.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
I am literally racing to get things canned right now. We really need to get a very large load of firewood to season over the summer as well. These kinds of "revelations" and pushes for control are huge and unsettlingly frequent these days, like every week there's a new topic/push, and nothing seems to stop the pushes. Obeyme is doing his damndest to destroy the nation, and is even trying to take Europe down as well (recommending Germany and France bail out Greece, which would cause their ratings to take a real, terrible drop). This guy hates Europeans, here and in Europe, if you catch my drift. Guess it's just my Spider Senses tingling or something, but man, the hairs on the back of my neck that normally only stand up during rare events that always come to transpire, seem to be going into overdrive right now. I don't believe in supernatural psychic stuff, but I do think that there's some part of my subconscious brain that actively processes and connects events to outcomes and sees big nasty things coming down the road when they're miles away. It's feeling now like they're not miles away, but just a block or two before they hit.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
Obama is the Anti-Christ. How many times does one have to be shown the truth for what it is? It's just that simple.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
Wonder no more. The difference between one administration is negligible other than each one is a bit worse than the preceding one. And the ones who the establishment picks will do as they are told. Not by the peons but by their owners. It was true for Bush, it was true for Clinton, and it is true for Obama.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. The Senator from Scotland and Lady Lindthey have thpoken!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. If anyone did get any money from the Saudis, it would be their own money they got, since we've sent trillions to them for oil, instead of drilling for our own here, including those mud flats in Alaska.
“No amount of reason, evidence, logic or rational argument will ever convince the true believer otherwise.”
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
If I have to boogie I can only carry so much food with me to begin with. For that situation I have coast guard approved "sea" rations (not the military kind, rather the kind approved for emergency nautical situations). Compact air sealed bars, each 2400 calories, one pack can last you days and is about the size of a balled hand per pack. If we have to bug out, that's what we're taking. Stuffing cans, glass or metal, into a backpack is highly inefficient and we'd get far less food, in my view. For now I have to plan as if we're going to lay low and be extremely quiet and get by without leaving the house much. Canning, non-hybrid seeds, water gathering (we gather water off the roof right now for gardening that I'm sure could be used for other things *innocent whistle*), heat, and loads of nearby forests/trees and a handy axe (*another innocent whistle*), and weapons.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
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LOOKS LIKE A KIKE PILGRIMAGE TO D.C. or the Negroe Pied Piper of Judaism ??? + David Axelrod – Special Adviser to the President; Axelrod is the Jew who manufactured Obama as a political force: he is a major business and political insider, especially among the heavily moneyed Chicago Jewish elite like the Pritzkers and many others + Jared Bernstein – Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to the Vice President [ECONOMICS] + Rahm Emanuel - White House Chief of Staff; son of a Zionist terrorist; dual- citizen of Israel and America (Emanuel served in Israel’s military during the First Gulf War instead of the U.S. military); used Jewish ethnic networking to land a lucrative job at an investment bank despite having no prior experience in business (he made over 15 million dollars in less than 3 years at the firm); despite supposedly being a “distribute the wealth” Democrat Emanuel was the top House recipient of monetary donations from Wall Street, hedge funds, private equity fund, banks, and the overall financial industry during the 2008 election cycle…even as the financial markets nearly collapsed in 2008 [ECONOMICS] + Federal Reserve – The Jews Bernanke, Kohn, Warsh, and Kroszner are still heading the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (the main group which oversees all of the other regional Federal Reserve branches), while the Jew Fred Mishkin recently resigned from the Board yet still remains very influential there; Daniel Tarullo, a recent Obama appointee to the Board and your typical shadowy figure who is so often installed to run the Fed, is pending confirmation (he is possibly Jewish – Jews often chang(ed) their too Jewish surnames to Italian surnames in order to blend in to America and elsewhere more easily); there are more vacancies of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors which will likely be filled by Obama fairly soon, and they are likely to be Jews even though they already hold the majority of the seats overseeing the 12 separate Fed branches; also, Paul Volcker (who is the Chair of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board [and former Chairman of the Fed]) is said to be partially Jewish according to some sources [ECONOMICS] + Tim Geithner – Treasury Secretary; all reliable information points to him being ethnically Jewish (at least partially), but if not he definitely married in to The Tribe (m. Carole Sonnenfeld, 1985); he has been President of the New York Fed (which is by far the most powerful and influential branch of the Fed) during the major economic crisis (2007-present) which has utterly decimated the American economy and brought us to the brink of a depression – and now this guy is put in charge of the Treasury? [ECONOMICS] + Gary Gensler – Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; hmmm, is it coincidental that, time after time after time, a Jew is put in charge of regulating the economic activity of other Jews in banks and on Wall Street? If it happens here and there, it’s no big deal…but if you examine the data you will have much to be suspicious about considering this has been a repeating pattern since at least the 1960s in America [ECONOMICS] + Elena Kagan – Solicitor General + Sally Katzen – Major legal adviser to Obama-Biden + Ron Klain – Chief of Staff to the Vice President: yes, the Chief of Staff for both Pres. Obama and VP Biden are Jews…meaning they have control of the overall schedule and access to these leaders on a day to day basis + Eric Lander AND Harold E. Varmus – Co-Chairs of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science/Technology + Jacob Lew AND James Steinberg – Deputy Secretaries of State, second in rank only to Hillary Clinton in foreign policy matters (meaning if something happens to her one of them will take over, giving a Jew yet another major Cabinet slot); both of these people are hardcore Zionist Israel Firsters, so it is difficult to imagine how they will remain objective and neutral when it comes to dealing with foreign policy matters in the Middle East + Ellen Moran – White House Director of Communications + Peter Orszag – Director of the Office of Management and Budget [ECONOMICS] + Penny Pritzker – Obama’s National Finance Chair during the election cycle; she is a billionaire heiress of the Pritzker family fortune (at least 5-7 separate billionaires in the family); the Pritzkers are major players in the ’squeaky clean’ Chicago political scene [ECONOMICS] + Robert Reich – Economic adviser to Obama-Biden [ECONOMICS] + Dennis Ross – Obama’s Ambassador-At-Large in the (Entire) Middle East, Obama’s “top envoy” (so much for diplomatic neutrality in the Arab/Israeli Conflict – MEANING NOTHING CHANGES); he co-authored Obama’s groveling June 2008 speech at the AIPAC conference; also served in the HW Bush and Clinton Administrations under which little progress was made in the Israeli/Palestinian issue + Robert Rubin – Economic adviser to Obama-Biden; well-known as former Treasury Secretary and ultra-greedy Wall Street slime [ECONOMICS] + Daniel B. Shapiro – Head the Middle East Desk at the National Security Council (yet another ‘neutral diplomatic Jew’ when it comes to foreign policy matters involving the Middle East); also a major Washington lobbyist and fundraiser for the Democratic Party + Mary Schapiro – Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission; a very entrenched Jewish bureaucrat who has served in every Presidential administration since Reagan; also an executive for Duke Energy and Kraft Foods (what ever happened to conflicts of interest?); identical to the Gary Gensler scenario in that this Jew has been put in charge of ‘regulating’ the chaotic swarm of greedy Jews on Wall Street and in banks nationwide…and no one believes this might be a problem given the very long and storied history of Jewish white collar crime? It’s not a problem that Jewish white-collar crime is so very linked with the nepotisitc and/or ethnic networking abilities of Jews to cover each others tracks in order to evade regulatory or legal authorities? Schapiro has been Chairman of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority since 2007 (i.e., ever since the economy started to implode) – and now she is, like Gensler, getting even more ‘regulatory’ authority? Didn’t the Madoff rip-off teach the government anything? [ECONOMICS] + Phil Schiliro – Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs (likely Jewish: he was Henry Waxman’s long-time Chief of Staff) + Lawrence (Larry) Summers – Director of the White House National Economic Council; a Clinton repeat, greedy Wall Street executive, and World Banker; yet another devious Jew stooge a la Gensler/Schapiro/Bernanke/Greenspan/Wolfensohn/etc/etc who is supposed to be studiously regulating the very financial industry Jews which paid them tens of millions in the private sector just a few years before they took a government job because they wanted to ’serve their country’ – yeah, that’s real likely. [ECONOMICS] + Mona Sutphen – Deputy White House Chief of Staff; 2nd behind Emanuel and bunches more ... like Chertoff, Schumer, Feinstein, Specter, Waxman, Boxer, Grayson, ad nauseum ... UPDATE: UPDATE: the following is a list I recently came across that lists other Jews in the Obama Administration: OBAMA’S LEADING JEWISH ‘CZARS’ Economic Czar – Larry Summers Regulatory Czar – Cass Sunstein Pay Czar – Kenneth Feinberg Guantanamo/Military Jails Czar – Daniel Fried Car Czar – Steven Rattner Border Czar – Alan Bersin Climate Czar – Todd Stern Global Warming Czar – Carol Browner BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF AMERICAN FEDERAL RESERVE (minus the gentiles) S. Bernanke – Chairman Donald L. Kohn – Vice Chairman Kevin M. Warsh (Note:Frederic Mishkin recently left the Board of Governors) Jewish Federal Reserve District Bank Presidents: Eric S. Rosengren – President, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Charles I. Plosser – President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Jeffrey M. Lacker – President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond James B. Bullard – President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Gary H. Stern– President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Thomas M. Hoenig – President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Richard W. Fisher– President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Janet L. Yellen – President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco JEWS ON OBAMA’S ECONOMIC TEAM: Benjamin Bernanke: Chairman, Federal Reserve System Neal Wolin: Deputy Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department Lael Brainard: Under Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department JEWS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Richard Holbrooke:Special Envoy to Pakistan/Afghanistan Stuart Levey: Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Lawrence Summers: Chairman, National Economic Council Paul Volcker: Chairman, Economic Recovery Advisory Board Jared Bernstein: Chief Economist and Economic Adviser, Peter Orszag: Director, Office of Management and Budget Jason Furman: Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget Jeffrey Zeints: Chief Performance Officer to streamline government and cut costs as well as Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget Gary Gensler: Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Mary Schapiro: Chairwoman, Securities and Exchange Commission Sheila Bair: Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Karen Mills: Administrator, Small Business Administration Jon Leibowitz: Chairman, Federal Trade Commission Douglas Shulman: Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service Neil M. Barofsky: Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“SIGTARP”) JEWS ON FOREIGN POLICY TEAM: James B. Steinberg: Deputy Secretary of State Jacob Lew: Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Jeffrey D. Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (Includes Mideast) Lee Feinstein: Foreign Policy Advisor Eric Lynn: Middle East Policy Advisor Dennis Ross: Special Advisor for the Gulf (Iran) and Southwest Asia to the Secretary of State Mara Rudman: Foreign Policy Advisor Dan Shapiro: Head of Middle East desk at the National Security Council JEWISH AMBASSADORIAL NOMINEES: England: Louis Susman Germany: Phil Murphy OTHER JEWISH NOMINEES/APPOINTEES Rahm Emmanuel: Whitehouse Chief of Staff Julius Genachowski: Chair, Federal Communications Commission Elena Kagan: Solicitor General of the U.S., Department of Justice Dr. Margaret Hamburg:Commissioner, of the Food and Drug Administration Dr. Joshua Sharfstein:Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration Susan Sher:Chief of Staff for First Lady Michelle Obama Dr. Thomas R. Frieden:Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"The smallest of frauds such as Santa Claus are perpetrated upon children by criminals in order that the largest of frauds such as the FEDERAL RESERVE may be had upon them as adults."
But Kagan, acting as President Obama's Solicitor General, argued that the case should not be heard even if evidence proved that the Saudis helped underwrite al Qaeda, because it would interfere with US foreign policy with the oil-rich nation.
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“One would have hoped that the Obama administration would have taken a different stance than the Bush administration, and you wonder what message this sends to victims of terrorism around the world.”
Lord Acton
#6. To: tom007 (#0)
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered a proposal to amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which Kagan cited as one reason the Saudi case should not be heard. Both senators said that US citizens should be able to sue foreign governments if they are found to be supporting terrorist activity.
Lord Acton
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#8. To: SonOfLiberty (#3)
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#12. To: tom007 (#0)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
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