Rep. Brad Sherman: Saudis Always Follow British Orders

Tuesday’s House Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing on Saudi involvement in international terrorism had some extraordinary moments that demonstrated that at least some Members of Congress have been listening to LaRouche’s exposes of the British ownership of the Saudi Monarchy and regime.

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Cal.), a strong advocate for the release of the 28 pages, responded to a question about whether the United States could get the Saudis to stop sponsoring jihadist terrorism, by making the point that the Saudis listen to the British, and never defy British demands.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher openly stated that the Saudis “had to have” known in advance about the looming 9/11 attacks.  He reported that he had had sources close to the Taliban leaders inside Pakistan telling him four months before Sept. 11, 2001, that a big attack against the United States was coming, then asked whether anyone believed for a moment that the Saudi Royal Family did not know in advance of the 9/11 attacks.  He said that the Saudis are directly financing terrorism; that the intent was not just to kill 3,000 people, but to kill 50,000-100,000 people. He reminded the attendees of the Boston Marathon bombing and San Bernardino attack as but two incidents in this pattern. Rohrabacher actually asked the four witnesses to raise their hands if they believed the Saudi Royals knew in advance about the planned 9/11 attacks, and two of them, including former Rep. Tim Roemer, a member of the 9/11 Commission, raised their hands in agreement.

This week, five additional Members of Congress signed on to H. Res. 14, demanding the release of the 28 pagers:  Ryan Zinke (R—Mt.), Peter DeFazio (D-Or.), Ileana Ross-Lehtinen (R-Fl.), David Cicilline (D-RI), and Al Green (D-TX).

The Saudis are plainly hysterical over the momentum that has been built around both the JASTA bill and especially the juggernaut for release of the 28 pages and all of the remaining classified material from the two official investigations.

Not only have the Saudis been circulating a 104-page dossier, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Counterterrorism, claiming that Saudi Arabia is in the lead of the fight against ISIS, Al Qaeda, and all of the jihadist groups, and is America’s number-one partner in the Global War on Terrorism.  The Saudis have one of their big PR firms circulating a 38-page white paper, claiming to refute the evidence of their role in 9/11.  It is a pathetic, sophistic cut-and-paste of all of the statements from the earlier court rulings, and highly selective fallacy-of-composition quotes from the 9/11 Commission findings, and quotes from people like John Brennan, and turncoats Lee Hamilton and Tom Kean.  The lobbying firm that produced and is circulating the document is Qorvis MSLGroup.

Qorvis has been on the Saudi pad since the original Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.  The firm was hired at a fee of $200,000 a month to repair the Saudi reputation in Washington, after 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were revealed to have been Saudi nationals. They have been retained ever since, at higher pay.  In December 2002, Philip Shenon, who would later author a devastating expose of the role of Philip Zelikow as the Bush Administration mole assigned to sabotage the work of the 9/11 Commission in his book The Commission, wrote in the New York Times that three executives of Qorvis had resigned, largely in protest over the firm’s work for the Saudis, covering up evidence of the Kingdom’s role in promoting and financing jihadist terrorism. Qorvis also is the official registered agent of Bahrain, a virtual colony of Saudi Arabia.  As the probes into 9/11 got closer to the role of the Kingdom and leading princes and government officials, Qorvis hired Matt Lauer to handle the Saudi account. Lauer headed the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy at the State Department before joining Qorvis.