President Obama arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday as tensions surrounding a confidential 9/11 congressional intelligence report mount both at home and abroad. Obama has urged the release of the documents, which conclude that Saudi officials in the U.S. might have had a hand in engineering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. However, Saudi officials have vehemently denied such accusations.
Stateside, there is bipartisan support for a bill that would let American citizens sue Saudi Arabia for 9/11, which Obama opposes due to the window it would open for other nations to do the same to the U.S. down the line. "This is not just a bilateral U.S.-Saudi issue. This is a matter of how, generally, the United States approaches our interactions with other countries," Obama said in an interview with CBS.
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