
As Liz Goodwin and Michael Isikoff noted on 11 October 2016 regarding a recent wikileak:
The Clinton email states: “We need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”
That email from Hillary Clinton, was sent on 17 August 2014.
Any reference to the Saudi government is a reference to the Saudi royal family, who own the Saudi government — it’s their fiefdom.
I reported on 17 February 2016 that:
On 30 December 2009, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a cable (subsequently released to the public by wikileaks) to America’s Ambassadors in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Pakistan, headlined, “Terrorist Finance: Action Request for Senior Level Engagement on Terrorism Finance.”
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