Obama Reveals Why Terror Victims Can’t Sue Saudi Arabia

President Obama doesn’t think terror victims suing Saudi Arabia is a good idea. He contends that it opens up a can of worms, where victims of US military actions could then sue the US government. John Iadarola, Wes Clark Jr., and Elliot Hill (The Lip TV), hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill’s passage, according to administration officials and congressional aides from both parties, and the Saudi threats have been the subject of intense discussions in recent weeks between lawmakers and officials from the State Department and the Pentagon. The officials have warned senators of diplomatic and economic fallout from the legislation.

Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, delivered the kingdom’s message personally last month during a trip to Washington, telling lawmakers that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.”