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May 12, 2010
Kagan Defended Al Qaeda Financiers
Posted by Dave Blount at May 12, 2010 2:15 PM
What do you mean Elena Kagan's only qualifications are hating the military and convincing the public she's a lesbian? From the point of view of an administration that put terrorist enabler Eric Holder in charge of the Injustice Department, this ought to feature prominently on her resume:
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.
Even Benedict Arlen Specter was enraged, proposing an amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act that would prevent the ultra-Left's answer to Harriet Miers from hiding behind it.
"She wants to coddle the Saudis," he said.
The bad guys control our government. There is no other way to make sense of anything in the news.
Obama picked her; where did you think her sympathies would lie?
On a tip from SR.
