The U.S government has known for decades that the Saudi have been abusing diplomatic policy

CanadianJudo · 2019-04-27T10:07:40.338Z

The Saudi embassy and diplomat have been abusing their power for decades to help Saudi National avoid serious crimes including murder and rape.

The government of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly helped Saudi citizens evade prosecutors and the police in the United States and flee back to their homeland after being accused of serious crimes here, current and former US officials said.

The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies have been aware of the Saudi actions for at least a decade, officials said. But successive American administrations have avoided confronting the government in Riyadh out of concern that doing so might jeopardize US interests, particularly Saudi cooperation in the fight against Islamist terrorism, current and former officials said.

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Smyrna · 2019-04-27T10:45:07.963Z

After 9/11 when all flights were grounded, this didn’t apply to select Saudis who were allowed to leave.

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2019-04-27T13:25:10.607Z

this is the least surprising thing i’ll read all day.

WuWei · 2019-04-27T13:27:27.259Z

Diplomatic immunity has been a problem since it was conceived.

hindsight · 2019-04-27T13:28:47.159Z

Oil, oil, oil.

WuWei · 2019-04-27T13:50:52.377Z

hindsight:

Oil, oil, oil.

Where do we get our oil, oil, oil?

hindsight · 2019-04-27T14:02:49.517Z

I’m no expert, but I assume that over the past few decades Saudi Arabia has been a major supplier.

WuWei · 2019-04-27T14:05:14.132Z

hindsight:

I’m no expert, but I assume that over the past few decades Saudi Arabia has been a major supplier.

Might want to look into it.

hindsight · 2019-04-27T14:26:17.263Z

WuWei:

hindsight:

I’m no expert, but I assume that over the past few decades Saudi Arabia has been a major supplier.

Might want to look into it.

Okay, and?

WuWei · 2019-04-27T14:30:14.431Z

hindsight:

WuWei:

hindsight:

I’m no expert, but I assume that over the past few decades Saudi Arabia has been a major supplier.

Might want to look into it.

Okay, and?

Saudi oil is not as big a deal to us as you seem to believe.

hindsight · 2019-04-27T14:41:40.768Z

If you say so.

WuWei · 2019-04-27T14:43:15.314Z

hindsight:

If you say so.

It’s a fact. Now Saudi oil is a huge deal to some other countries.

hindsight · 2019-04-27T14:45:53.235Z

Whatever makes you happy.

WuWei · 2019-04-27T14:48:23.138Z

hindsight:

Whatever makes you happy.

Independence from the crazy savages in the ME makes me extremely happy.

TheRedComet · 2019-04-27T15:07:04.087Z

No. The US uses mostly domestic supplies combined with imports from Canada and Mexico.

What makes the Saudis important is that they have the largest “easy to extract” reserves on the planet. The US, Canada, and Russia actually have larger reserves but ours are harder to extract. So the Saudis ultimately play a large role on the worldwide oil market.

Bigjohn · 2019-04-27T16:33:28.913Z

12.9% from the ME of which 8.1% comes from Saudi while 19.6% comes from Latin America broken down as 7.5% from Mexico and 5.9% from Venezuela also 15.1 % from Canada we also get 10.3% from Africa of which 5.2% of which is Nigerian.

Apocalypto · 2019-04-27T16:40:57.454Z

Bin Laden was a Saudi and the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis, but somehow, we ended up invading Iraq.
This is where I finally left and gave the Republican party the finger.

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2019-04-27T16:44:01.497Z

All the Saudi’s have to do (along with some other countries) is cut production to punish people.

Bigjohn · 2019-04-27T16:45:20.438Z

I like high oil prices in fact i like them a lot