Comments on: A Legal Counterattack

A Legal Counterattack

bureaustyle — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:58:31 -0800

Baker Botts is the lawfirm representing the Saudis.
I find it interesting that this lawfirm boasts former secretary of State James Baker as one of its senior partners. Its recent alumni included Robert Jordan (Jordan, a corporate lawyer in the Dallas office of Houston-based Baker Botts, defended Bush in a probe of insider trading allegations in 1990. Bush was cleared of wrongdoing), the former personal lawyer for President Bush who is now U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

By: xmutex

xmutex — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:11:16 -0800

huh?

By: Ignatius J. Reilly

Ignatius J. Reilly — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:17:06 -0800

huh? he said: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hires a huge U.S. legal team to defend them against the landmark $1 trillion lawsuit on behalf of the victims of 9-11 (msnbc link) Baker Botts is the lawfirm representing the Saudis. I find it interesting that this lawfirm boasts former secretary of State James Baker as one of its senior partners. Its recent alumni included Robert Jordan (Jordan, a corporate lawyer in the Dallas office of Houston-based Baker Botts, defended Bush in a probe of insider trading allegations in 1990. Bush was cleared of wrongdoing), the former personal lawyer for President Bush who is now U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

By: xmutex

xmutex — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:18:50 -0800

I know what he said, but I can't make out what he's sayin'.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:24:03 -0800

...."Gee are old LaSalle ran great..."

By: homunculus

homunculus — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:30:18 -0800

This is the part I found interesting: "But in laying out their arguments, Sultan’s U.S. lawyers also presented highly detailed new evidence of the Saudi government’s role in funneling millions of dollars to a web of Islamic charities that are widely suspected by U.S. officials of covertly financing the operations of Al Qaeda and other international terrorist groups." Oops. Also on WarFilter, btw.

By: bureaustyle

bureaustyle — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:46:29 -0800

Bush and the Saudi princess Now, is Bush with U.S. or agains U.S. ???

By: spazzm

spazzm — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:29:43 -0800

Waitaminit, didn't we go to war on a completely different country over that terrorist thingy? Doesn't that mean that: a) we should go to war on Saudi Arabia, too. or b) SA had nothing to do with it. I'm confused.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:44:17 -0800

Um, so what?

By: techgnollogic

techgnollogic — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:11:51 -0800

You don't think it would be kind of hard to "go to war" against Saudi Arabia with Saddam right next door?

By: dr_dank

dr_dank — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:08:23 -0800

BureauStyle: I followed that linked story, but it threw me when it rattled off the lists of terrorist acts that AQ was involved in and mentioned the Moscow musical hostage debacle. I though Chechen rebels had to do with that, not Osama & co.