{"id":27665,"date":"2017-11-06T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27665"},"modified":"2017-11-06T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T16:23:22","slug":"saudi-arabia-government-purge-and-how-washington-corruption-enabled-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27665","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia’ Government Purge–And How Washington Corruption Enabled It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAUDI ARABIA\u2019S GOVERNMENT PURGE \u2014 AND HOW WASHINGTON CORRUPTION ENABLED IT<\/a><\/h3>\n
THE MASS ARREST<\/u>\u00a0of high-ranking Saudi businessmen, media figures and royal family members Saturday has shaken the global business community. Among 10 other princes and 38 others, the roundup netted Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world\u2019s richest men, who owns significant shares in everything from Citibank to Twitter to the parent company of Fox News.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Prince Alwaleed\u00a0has done business with President Donald Trump in the past, but during the campaign turned into a fiery critic, drawing Trump\u2019s Twitter ire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dopey Prince @<\/span>Alwaleed_Talal<\/span><\/a> wants to control our U.S. politicians with\u00a0daddy\u2019s money. Can\u2019t do it when I get elected. #<\/span>Trump2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The move against\u00a0Alwaleed and the other officials\u00a0was couched as the result of a secret investigation carried out by a \u201chigh committee on fighting corruption.\u201d Minister of Education Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Issa \u201chailed the royal decree,\u201d according to the Saudi Press Agency, saying, \u201cthis committee heralds a future of firmness against those who are trying to to undermine the capabilities of the homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever the official explanation, it is being read around the world as a power grab by the kingdom\u2019s rising crown prince. \u201cThe sweeping campaign of arrests appears to be the latest move to consolidate the power of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the favorite son and top adviser of King Salman,\u201d as the New York Times put it.<\/a> \u201cThe king had decreed the creation of a powerful new anti-corruption committee, headed by the crown prince, only hours before the committee ordered the arrests.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo: Bandar Algaloud\/Saudi Royal Council\/Anadolu Agency\/Getty Images SAUDI ARABIA\u2019S GOVERNMENT PURGE \u2014 AND HOW WASHINGTON CORRUPTION ENABLED IT THE MASS ARREST\u00a0of high-ranking Saudi businessmen, media figures and royal family members Saturday has shaken the global business community. Among 10 other princes and 38 others, the roundup netted Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1769,16879,13801,701,5567,865],"class_list":["post-27665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-corruption","tag-government-purge","tag-ryan-grim","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-the-intercept","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27666,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665\/revisions\/27666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}