Is Suing Saudi Arabia for 9/11 a good idea?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It's been 15 years since the attacks of September 11, but that's not the only reason they're back in the news. The Obama White House calls it "embarrassing" that bipartisan majorities in Congress have given victims' families the right to sue Saudi Arabia, and the battle's not over yet.
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| 0:38.8 | Suing Saudi Arabia. What could go wrong? |
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| 0:48.1 | Fifteen years after the attacks of September 11th, the families of victims still want |
| 0:52.5 | authorization to sue Saudi Arabia, even |
| 0:55.0 | though there's no smoking gun. In this election year, they got what they wanted when bipartisan |
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