“In granting legal immunity to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Biden is failing to uphold America’s most cherished values.”
Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan on Friday excoriated President Joe Biden for his administration’s decision to shield Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a suit connected to the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“In granting legal immunity to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Biden is failing to uphold America’s most cherished values,” Ryan said in a statement. “He is granting a license to kill to one of the world’s most egregious human-rights abusers who is responsible for the cold-blooded murder of Jama Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist.”
Earlier on Friday, the State Department announced its determination that bin Salman enjoyed civil immunity in the suit related to Khashoggi’s murder as a foreign head of state.
“Under common law principles of immunity articulated by the Executive Branch in the exercise of its Constitutional authority over foreign affairs and informed by customary international law, Prime Minister bin Salman as a sitting head of government is immune while in office from the jurisdiction of the United States District Court in this suit,” the State Department wrote in a letter. “In making this immunity determination, the Department of State takes no view on the merits of the present suit and reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of the heinous murder of Jamal Khashoggi.”
Ryan took exception to the decision, agreeing that foreign heads of state “should be protected against frivolous lawsuits,” but asserted that the Saudis had appointed MBS as Prime Minister as a legal ploy to grant him immunity in the case.
Prince should have Knocked off Biden while he was there !!!!!
once you bump fist……….
I’m guessing those who are so passionate about this issue also believe the psyop story given to us about the Las Vegas massacre. Reminds me of RR’s “it’s not that they know so much, it’s that they know so much that isn’t so”