That episode of "Patriot Act" is no longer available inside Saudi Arabia. "Our relationship with Saudi Arabia -- and I mean that both as an American and a Muslim -- has always been extremely complicated. "Just so you know, we've had this complicated... we've been taking Saudi Arabia to 'sword prom' since FDR." It cites the case of the Financial Times, which "had to withdraw its correspondent and close its Riyadh bureau for publishing 'lies' about Saudi Arabia. "The Saudi authorities even considered legal proceedings if the newspaper did not issue an apology and undertake to cover Saudi Arabia in 'neutral' and 'objective' manner."

Source: CNN January 02, 2019 04:25 UTC