Who better to defend Qatar it is a hotbed of terrorism-funding (as per a recent list released by Saudi Arabia et al according to which 59 individuals and 12 entities in Qatar are terrorist) than the US Attorney General who served during the September 11 attacks, John Ashcroft. At least that's what the government of Qatar is thinking, which hired the former US AG to defend the world's wealthiest (on a GDP/capita basis) nation from accusations by Donald Trump and Arab neighbors that it supports terrorism.
As a reminder, Ashcroft was U.S. attorney general under President George W. Bush from February 2001 to February 2005, years in which US policies and laws were reshaped by the so-called war on terrorism that followed the 2001 al Qaeda attacks. Under Ashcroft the US spawned the "Patriot Act", trampling over civil rights everywhere, and made pervasive spying on virtually everyone the norm, courtesy of the NSA.
Perhaps relying on the assumption that Qatar can simply bribe its way again into America's good graces - recall Qatar give Bill Clinton a $1 million "present" for his Birthday, and was one of the biggest foreign "donors" of the Clinton Foundation even when Hillary was still at the State Department...
SecState Hillary Clinton, left, meets the Prime Minister of Qatar
Sheik Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani in 2010.
... and was never once accused of sponsoring terrorism - on Friday a Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, with the Justice Department revealed that Qatar will pay the Ashcroft Law Firm $2.5 million for a 90-day period as the country seeks to confirm its efforts to fight global terrorism and comply with financial regulations including U.S. Treasury rules.
In a letter by Ashcroft partner Michael Sullivan, including in the filing, the law firm said that "the firm's work will include crisis response and management, program and system analysis, media outreach, education and advocacy regarding the client's historical, current and future efforts to combat global terror and its compliance goals and accomplishments."
In other words, propganda aka "fake news."
The filing came just hours after Trump accused Qatar of being a "high level" sponsor of terrorism in public remarks made shortly after his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, pushed Qatar's Arab neighbors to "immediately take steps to de-escalate the situation."
The Ashcroft firm was also hired to do a compliance and regulatory view of Qatar's anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing framework, Sullivan told Reuters in an email. Considering it is being paid nearly $30,000/day by the gas rich country, we are confident Ashcroft will find "nothing there."
"Qatar is confident that the review and analysis will confirm that Qatar has significant measures in place to prevent and detect efforts to launder funds and/or to use its financial systems to finance terrorist organizations," Sullivan said.
A veritable tribute to neo-conservatism, Ashcroft's firm includes an array of former senior government officials including Michael Sullivan, a former U.S. attorney in Massachusetts appointed by Bush to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and Johnny Sutton, who led the Bush-Cheney transition team, and Luis Reyes, another ex-Bush appointee, who served as General Counsel for the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
The full filing and retention letter is below.
Seems like a good idea. But again, anything that can go against Saudi Barbaria seems like a good idea to me.
Swamp.
Shit sticks together...
Disgusting. Lock him up.
"Umm.... She's sitting on my new chair- she IS wearing her diaper, right?"
Let the mighty eagles soar!
(edited to update: nobody gets this reference? Oh well be thankful I'm in a charitable mood and I won't drop the link. It would make you ill for days.)
Ahhhh, an oldie but badie //
First comment I believe is , "embarrasing cunt."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-B_yupEkPs
shitter. and it's full. wish i still had that picture of hillary as randy quaid in christmas vacation. great art. anyone? original source was punk something. it's been disappeared.
george orwell called these bastards pretty fucking well.
Who knows all of the details about 9/11, details we can only begin to surmise, if not one of the participants?
John Ashcroft, perchance?
He will prosecute the Saudi bastards for their role in the 9/11 attacks at the behest of the Qatari Government as he is only loyal to the Buck.
Oh John Ashcroft is a slimeball....as most attorneys are slimeballs. But he was the head of the slimeballs when he served as US Attorney General. yes. He stands among the worst of the slimeballs.
He already knows the answers. All he has to do is ask the right questions and then the Saudis are toast in a World Court.
Then the Saudis will implicate all of the players, including Israel and the United States...in order to mitigate their own dirty actions or exonerate themselves.
Yeah Ashcroft is a slimeball and there is no doubt of that. But in this instance he is our slimeball indirectly working for us who seek the exposure and prosecution of those responsible and complicit for those attacks.
Fuck the Mossad and the Government of the United States for attacking us, the People.
More money into the pockets of the perpetrators of 9/11. What a fuckin' joke. But at this point, what difference does it make?
It may be a the smartest move that Qatar could have ever made. Who knows more about the perpetrators of 9/11 than John Ashcroft?
This may shut the Saudis up...pronto.
Huh? Why would it be of any interst to the Saudis? Everybody knows Israel did it.
some ancillary beard work by the saudi government and other assets wouldn't surprise me though.
but getting all these legal proceedings going with the greatest hits of 9-11 as the defense attorneys/prosecutors as it happens can't be worse than nothing at all.
talk things up. point out parallels.
What is beautiful is that Ashcroft already knows all of the inconvenient truths...the answers..
All he has to do is ask the right questions and trap the bastards.
I hope with all of my heart that the House of Saud is stupid enough to allow this to happen.
They will be shredded in a World Court and then sing like a canary to exonerate themselves or mitigate their own actions.
Father God...Let the House of Saud be blinded and deluded. Let the Truth be exposed and the wickedness laid bare for all to see. Thank you.
People allow their hatred...TO BLIND THEM.
It was paid for through Saudi Banks. Yes Israel did it. They were NOT alone. So did Saudi Arabia have their hands dirty.
And you might add in the Government of Switzerland, while we are at it, along with the Government of the United States.
Do you think that the Government of the United States wants this exposed? Do you think that the government of Israel wants this exposed?
They will put a stop to this...fast.
Why don't you wake up and get your head out of your ass? There is much more to this than you think.
Yes fucking Israel did it. So did a lot of other players.
What do you think the Saudi DEFENSE WILL BE?
So the solution is to go after the patsies and leave the main player go free (as per usual)? Sounds a little duplicitous to me.
I love Book sales. Hear me out.
And when I go to any Book Sale I go out of my way to find special Books, very special books, books that are marked "Not For Public Distribution."
Yes. Because that is where you find information that you are not supposed to have. Then I read those books, cober to cover, repeatedly.
When I get one of those books...yeah. It makes it all worthwhile to find one of those gems.
At one sale I stumbled onto a Drug Enforcement Agency Training Book. Now that was a most interesting read. It revealed all of their tactics..
One of their tactics is called, "Climbing The Ladder" Yes. They will go out of their way to bust low level USER/DEALERS as these can be turned unto Confidential Informants (CI).
And then it told the reader how to manage the CI...How to manipulate the CI to turn in larger dealers who are then recruited as CIs, to repeat the process, to reveal their sources..so they can bust them and..then turn the larger dealers into CIs, in order to get to the Large Players.
Unfortunately I had loaned the book to a man who was middling 100lbs Shipments of Marijuana to the Midwestern USA. And then because one of his DRUG ADDICT Mules had stole the Marijuana and bought Heroin to shoot into his veins, and this man could not cover the loss, the Mexican Mafia just...oh...burned his home to the ground.
Well...My book was in that house. Idiots. They know not what they destroyed. And I have learned to not loan books because most of the times in which I have, I did not get them back....and more importantly...NEVER EVER DEAL WITH MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. Ahhh...That happened many decades ago when I was young, adventurous and unwise. Youthful indiscretion.
Yes, You go after the lower level players to turn them. It is called, "Climbing The Ladder" after all.
The Saudis funded that 9/11 Operation. They are dirty as Hell. And there is no honor amongst thieves. They will turn over any co-conspirator to save their own hide.
But using it as an excuse to bomb and occupy Iraq and Afghanistan...who had nothing to do with it...was uncalled for. Millions died as a result.
(((Dual citizens))) I tells ya. They're always looking to make money on the way up, and always looking to make money on the way down. Up or down, if there's money to be made they'll be around.
the most dangerous ones are motivated by true belief, imo.
though the solid wall of legacy media is mostly careerism. but still a little true believer.
That is precisely what holds their sordid litlle crew together, a messianic esprit de corps of grand psychotic delusion.
nice gig for ashcroft..though, I thought mueller and comey left him for dead
New game, same players
More like a new round of the same old game, featuring the same old players.
To cover up state-sanctioned terrorist activity, always hire someone with relevant experience. Perhaps one of these neo-cons will redeem himself for a change.
To me, it looks like Libya all over again. However, I don't think the Qataris are getting shafted, this time. just one of their depositors.
1.8 billion in CF assets will be a small drop in the bucket for the emiratis. In return, winning..... revenge.... and some special humilation for the previous boss of the Great Satan's State Department .... good relations with the new Sheriffs.
Truly sounds like a 360 degree "Art of the Deal" win. 4 scoops of ice cream followed by some Beautiful chocolate cake.
Long on disappointed hillbillies and corrupt pols ....
Chutzpah for a former Attorney General to represent ANY middle-eastern country. I guess patriotism really does have it's limits and can be bought.
Al Jazeera it seems to have been infilltrayed by ISIS operatives playing on religious beliefs, however i doubt it the ruling familly is pro ISIS given their loyalty to US Government
Boy don't we just love to hate. The dude was hired to broker a settlement between Arab states.
Not only that, is it possible we might ever get along with anyone?
Most posters are duplicitous morons. No move is ever acceptable. No person is ever acceptable. No method is ever acceptable.
Most of you need a fucking job.
You need a shrink.
And fast.
You, dear troll, fall into the moron category. You are the definition of duplicitous; let alone asshole.
Some facts about Qatars problems with SA.
http://theantimedia.org/qatar-crisis-natural-gas-terrorism/
what? you've posted this twice, on different threads, scroll down, you'll see the tylers posted this days ago.
culture in decline......
rotting, decaying population all over the world....
it's the greatest show on earth people sit back and watch the freakshow....front seat
Indeed, all over the world. Not just America.
John Ashcroft.. Put on your uniform.. Put one .45acp slug in your Model 1911, put the gun in your mouth,. and kill yourself..
Fuck off sand nigger, you don't pay a sponsor to coverup the obvious. You fucking stand on your two legs and talk. Coward!
EBN - Channel Zero - YouTube
John Bible Thumping Ashcroft sucking dirty Arab dick for a mere 2.5MM FRN.
My day is now complete.
Amerian Patriot gonna suck on Quatari dick. hmm, Americans sure know how to be someone else's salve, Israel, Suadi and now a new player
Don't confuse Americans with neocon Zionist assholes. Big country. Don't be easily confused.
hiring one of the biggest cover-uppers of the biggest terror-attack in history to defend you against terrorism accusations seems about right... in todays war on terror...............hahahahaha
Yeah but that makes him a great choice, doesn't it?
<--- Former public servant
<--- Carpetbagging scum
Can we change the name of this planet from Earth to something more fitting like planet Bizarro?
We just stepped/jumped into the Twilight Zone.
This must be an SNL skit.
Just another corruption http://globalintelhub.com/exposed-secret-truth-fbi-suspects/
Welcome back Quatar.
LOL Bleed them dry, GJ USA.
That must be /hour. Excluded phone and post stamps.
And the Demon-crats are out supporting Sharia law today.
Can this shit get any weirder?
Our very own war criminal defending camel-fucking towel-headed terrorist assholes.
Looks like a match made in heaven.