Is there any responsibility that the Clinton Administration holds, in not holding the Saudis accountable in his tenure?
CU: Well they were more aggressive against the Saudis. Certainly there is blame to be laid at the Clinton Administration. But it really grows mostly out of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which crippled them so much that it…took away the political capital necessary to have a really strong response. They did crack down on the Saudi banking system… … the National Commercial Bank, which was the biggest bank in Saudi Arabia, was removed from the hands of Khalid bin Mahfouz and was nationalized, and it had been the target of Clinton Administration attempts to investigate it for allegedly funneling money to terrorist groups. So they had some success there. [But] when there were bombings in ’95 and ’96… suspects were often beheaded [by the Saudis] before the FBI could interview them. So the Clinton Administration found the Saudis terribly uncooperative. LO: There seems to be a neoconservative component of the Bush Administration that is virulently anti-Saudi. How does their presence squa
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