“Saudi Arabia has long been considered the primary source of Al Qaeda funding, but we have found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization,” the 9/11 Commission concluded. You wouldn’t know it from reading the media coverage of the JASTA bill. That scenario, of course, takes as its premise the idea that 9/11 families have previously been ill-served. If you’re a politician concerned with winning elections, the JASTA bill is the kind of cheap stunt that never gets old. Tom Williams via Getty Images Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is one of the lawmakers who voted for JASTA despite previously attacking conspiracy theories linking the Saudis to 9/11.

Source: Huffington Post September 28, 2016 23:48 UTC