Response: The Saudi Arabian government said it had nothing whatsoever to do with the September 11 attacks
Nancy Yousseff & Shane Harris, Daily Beast: Pentagon: Don’t Sue the Saudis for 9/11
They may have promoted al Qaeda’s poisonous ideology. But Saudi Arabia is too valuable an ally against today’s terrorism to allow ordinary Americans to make the kingdom pay.
There’s a major push in Congress right now for a bill that could hold the government of Saudi Arabia legally responsible for the 9/11 attacks. U.S. military and counterterrorism officials now leading the fights against al Qaeda and ISIS think that bill is a terrible idea.
“We don’t need this debate right now,” one defense official said, like others speaking on condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized publicly to criticize the bill, known as the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. Saudi officials have lobbied hard against the bill, telling members of the Obama administration, lawmakers, and journalists that the Saudi government has been a stalwart ally with the U.S. and was fighting al Qaeda years before it ever attacked American soil.
That message is resonating inside the Pentagon and in U.S. national security circles. Two former officials, who likewise declined to comment on the record about the bill, said it represented a troubling insertion of politics at a key point in the war against ISIS and would distract from a shared goal of combatting Islamic extremism.
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WNU Editor: Even the co-sponsor of the bill in the U.S. Senate is backtracking on his own legislation .... Lindsey Graham blocks Saudi 9/11 bill (The Hill). Bottom line .... there is going to be no bill that would make Saudi Arabia accountable for its actions (if any) on 9/11, and I am willing to bet that these same officials are also voicing opposition to making public the 28 pages of the 9/11 report that are still secret.