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Obama vetoed the bill last week, explaining that the "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act" (JASTA) would erode the doctrine of sovereign immunity and expose the US to lawsuits around the world.
JASTA, which passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate, allows US judges to waive sovereign immunity claims when dealing with acts of terrorism committed on American soil - potentially allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia over the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Fifteen of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals.
The issue appears to cross party lines, with Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) pushing for a veto override while Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker (R-Tennessee) is concerned it would "end up exporting [US] foreign policy to trial lawyers."
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has argued that allowing JASTA to become law could lead to US being sued in foreign courts and subjected to an "intrusive discovery process."
Comment: That sounds like a good thing! There should be an intrusive discovery process in a court of law over what happened on 9/11. Maybe then the world would get a true investigation instead of the whitewashed 9/11 Commission that did nothing but spread lies.
This could put Washington in the "difficult position of choosing between disclosing classified or otherwise sensitive information or suffering adverse rulings and potentially large damage awards for our refusal to do so," Carter wrote to House Armed Services Committee chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) earlier this week, according to the Military Times.
The House is expected hold a veto override vote later on Wednesday.
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I’ll Believe it When it Happens.
Re: SOTT’s box comment above, I here reprint what I, on 9/24 noted on the story of Obysmal’s veto at :
A bright line defining Traitors!
By: Rowan Cocoan
ANYone who voted against this measure IS OWNED BY AND OWES THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO, USrael/UK/Military Industrial Complex, et al., NOT TO AMERICA!
I've not bothered to read the article, but I guarantee that the evil Flunkies in AIPAC were fighting for this veto, along with Israel.
"But why?" It speaks of Suaudi Arabia. Well, the US has gotten away with this because they have actively controlled the 'Access to the Courts' and arguing that they (we, the taxpayers) "have paid out well over the average terrorist victim lawsuit. and all they can get is money, anyway." And that argument is FLAT WRONG.
First: issue of punitive damages cannot be defined by the guilty parties.
Second: (Most Importantly): If these suits went forward, then depositions and interrogatories and other legal 'discovery' events would QUICKLY show what we all know: that UK/USrael were behind it, with their multi year effort by hundreds of attorneys to have legislation ready - (the Patriot Act). Those who questioned it or said they hadn't had the time to even read it, promptly were mailed US-Made, Grade AAA+ Weaponized Nano Anthrax wherein every particle had a different electrical charge causing the particles to naturally disperse. (I don't remember all the details, but also, there's no doubt (DNA analysis) it was US-Made, and in contravention of WMD /Biowarfare treaties.
The cases would prove all this and soon the truth would out.
IMPEACH EVERY PERSON WHO VOTED AGAINST THIS LAW, PLUS OBYSMAL, the man who never lived in Connecticut, but has an SSN issued from there - i.e., the first unquestionably owned his whole life by the CIA/Intel/USrael, et al. HC was born here, I guess, but psychopaths spread out uniformly amoung populations.
R.C.
Back to above article. First, please notice sen. Corker’s above back pedaling from his previous joining the unanimous vote for the bill.
Why and how could there be a possible fight over the veto when it passed both houses of congress unanimously?
Answer: co-option, pressure, blackmail, etc., (mostly from Israel, which stands, along with Neocons, Bush Cheney, CIA et al to be blatantly exposed re their ‘big lie’, and much less, Saudi Arabia.)
So the pressure is now on. Who should our reps’ and sens’ loyalty be most directed to:
-Israel, Saudis and the PTB’s most hallowed goal of one world government, or
-To the US electorate.
(That should be no tough call but it is - for our the closet-nazis who now control the us.)
I would not at all be surprised to see a false flag (USrael/UK/PTB sponsored) followed by Martial Law (used as an excuse, of course) with its real goals being to:
1. Stop this from becoming law
2. Stop Killary from losing election.
Note that when assholes like Corker do the big step back, despite the fact that there’s been no change of the facts on the ground - only a change in the level of threats and pressure against ‘our’ (supposed) representatives in this ‘supposedly ‘free’ society, one should look closely at what follows.
Thus, I’ll believe it - the veto override - when and if it happens. (Even if it does, the courts will likely find a way to overrule it as unconstitutional, although the thoroughly unconstitutional NDAA and PatrioSh*t act remain untouched.)
RC