"Any developments in the case during the visit would prove acutely embarrassing for bin Salman, who is using the trip to re-brand his conservative kingdom."

"Stop the stonewalling and recognize that any true path to a Saudi future with the American people requires justice for your nation’s part in the September 11 attacks."

"Pro-Israel neocons in Washington, who pretty much run US foreign policy these days, are determined to have revenge for the defeat of US-backed rebel forces in Syria," writes Eric Margolis.

Saudi lobbyists tried to convince the Iowa governor that the law enabling 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia would make it much more difficult to recruit people into the National Guard.

Your U.S. government: Arming Salafist terrorists since 1979.

A determined Iowa writer continues to scrutinize two state officials who lobbied for Saudi Arabia against a law that enabled 9/11 families to sue the kingdom.

"The declaration on Jerusalem throws al-Qaeda-type movements a lifeline, just as they are facing complete defeat."

"Saying it has released every scrap of information it can about a Sarasota terrorism investigation it once hid from both Congress and the 9/11 Commission, the FBI went to court twice in the last two weeks to block any further disclosures."

"Besides its enthusiastic devotion to Salafi-Wahhabism...Saudi Arabia's murky relationship with Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks in 2001 have raised concerns as to what extent the monarchy aided and abetted the world's deadliest act of terrorism."

Two state officials/GOP heavyweights have become toxic in Iowa politics after 28Pages.org outs them for having worked for Saudi Arabia against 9/11 justice

Prince Bandar, who figures heavily in 28 now-declassified pages on Saudi government links to the 9/11 attacks, is among the detainees, according to Middle East Eye.

Iowa Democratic Party criticizes Governor Kim Reynolds for not taking her own prompt, decisive action against two state officials who earned $101,500 working for Saudi Arabia against 9/11 victims.

The governor’s move follows original reporting by 28Pages.org, followed by Associated Press, that Connie Schmett allegedly used deceit to persuade an Air Force veteran to lobby for changes to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA).

“I don’t pretend to be an expert on foreign federal agent registration,” said Schmett to a Bleeding Heartland journalist.

"It is hard to see how a new hyper-modern, economically advanced kingdom is going to emerge out of backstabbing and purges, conducted at the highest level."