Category: U.S. Navy
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Saudi Arabia wins dismissal of suit by relatives of dead and survivors of 2019 terrorist attack at Pensacola Naval Air Station
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A federal judge has dismissed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit seeking to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for a murderous rampage by a Royal Saudi Air Force officer at the Pensacola Naval Air Station nearly five years ago. -
Pensacola lawsuit seeking to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for deadly terrorist attack should be tossed, U.S. magistrate says
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The families of three murdered U.S. Navy servicemen and eight others wounded when a Saudi Air Force officer with “significant ties to al-Qaeda” opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019 cannot sue the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for damages, a federal magistrate ruled Thursday. -
Ex-FBI agents accuse top CIA, FBI officials of 9/11 coverup; CIA said to use Saudis, others for illegal domestic spy operations
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Weeks before 9/11, a livid New York FBI agent nearly “came over the table” at CIA officials who were blocking him from obtaining intelligence about two al Qaeda terrorists who would soon take part in hijacking an American Airlines passenger jet and crashing it into the Pentagon. -
A second ex-Guantanamo detainee says Ron DeSantis attended brutal forced feedings
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A second ex-Guantanamo prisoner has stepped forward to say that Ron DeSantis, while a U.S. Navy JAG officer in 2006, witnessed and allowed the brutal forced feedings of detainees that U.N. human rights authorities, and an international physician’s group have condemned as a form of torture. -
For Ron DeSantis, freedom means not having to discuss Guantanamo in new book
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In his new book, Gov. Ron DeSantis had the opportunity to discuss his record as a U.S. Navy JAG officer in Guantanamo, where a former detainee has accused him of involvement in illegal acts of torture amid a crackdown on hunger strikers in 2006. Yet he chose to remain largely silent. -
Ron DeSantis accused of illegal acts of torture against Guantanamo detainees when he was a Navy JAG officer
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Before he was governor, before he was a congressman, Ron DeSantis was a Lt. Commander and JAG lawyer in the U.S. Navy, serving at the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention camp in Cuba and Fallujah during the Iraq War.
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