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To: Don Green who wrote (27644)	9/8/2021 9:26:14 PM
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FYI, apparently the US government has engaged in such embarrassing activities with the Saudis that bringing them to light will be even more damaging than publicly shutting down a court case. One has to wonder what they engage while sleeping with them. Excerpts are below. Details at msn.com Avril Haines: US intelligence chief intervenes to block state secrets in Saudi Crown Prince's feud with former Saudi official By Alex Marquardt, CNN 6 days ago The US Director of National Intelligence has made an extraordinary intervention in a federal court case brought against a top former Saudi intelligence official, invoking the rarely used state secrets privilege to stop classified information from coming out that could cause "exceptionally grave" harm to US national security. The holding company that brought the case against Aljabri, called Sakab, is owned by a Saudi Public Investment Fund which is ultimately controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Sakab, according to the Justice Department, was created for counterterrorism activities and is funded by the kingdom's Ministry of Finance. To defend himself against Sakab, Aljabri's team has said there would have to be examination of "covert counterterrorism operations in partnership with the United States Government." Aljabri and his former boss, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, were key partners of US intelligence in the fight against al Qaeda. They were close to former CIA directors George Tenet and John Brennan (under whom Haines was a deputy director) and former intelligence officials credit Aljabri and MBN, as the prince is known, with saving hundreds of American lives. In elbowing his way to becoming crown prince, bin Salman, known as MBS, pushed aside MBN who is now under house arrest. Aljabri fled the country in 2017 but his two children, Omar and Sarah, were barred from leaving and arrested. Their family says they were kept in the dark on where the children, both in their early twenties, were being held before they were moved to the Al-Hayer maximum security prison in January. In a letter to President Joe Biden in July, a bipartisan group of senators called on him to help secure their release after a secret trial on "spurious charges" that resulted in a 15-year prison sentence and travel ban. "The Saudi government is believed to be using the children as leverage to blackmail their father and force his return to the kingdom," said the letter signed by Senators Marco Rubio, Patrick Leahy, Tim Kaine and Ben Cardin. MBS tried to lure him back to Saudi Arabia, Aljabri says, and was sent threatening WhatsApp messages by MBS saying they would use "all available means" and "take measures that would be harmful to you." While Aljabri brought a suit against MBS in Washington, Aljabri was accused of embezzling billions of dollars by Sakab, with claims of fraud made first in Canada and then in in the US.