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All are in this interview with John R. Bradley, author of Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis.
Money talks in Washington, and the Al-Saud have a lot of it to throw around. They have ingratiated themselves – to put it mildly – with successive presidents, be they Democrat or Republican. They put former American ambassadors to Riyadh on the payroll, and you find them popping up at conferences all the time saying that the Al-Saud are the only answer, that we must continue to stick with the Saudi regime. They fund think tanks, which are then compromised in what they can say about Saudi Arabia when it comes to drawing up foreign policy initiatives. They fund Middle East departments at major universities, which are basically in the hands of a pro-Palestinian, pro-Arab regimes mafia.
They also buy off so-called “experts”, academics and journalists – if not directly with cash (and that does happen; your magazine has given lists in the past) then with the implicit threat of withholding visas for subsequent trips to the kingdom, which such individuals need to make in order to say “when I was in the kingdom recently” to give their comments an air of credibility…
