{"id":382666,"date":"2018-10-27T23:10:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T22:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-when-will-obama-aides-come-clean-about-u-s-saudi-war-crimes\/"},"modified":"2018-10-27T23:10:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T22:10:53","slug":"prison-planet-com-when-will-obama-aides-come-clean-about-u-s-saudi-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-when-will-obama-aides-come-clean-about-u-s-saudi-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb When Will Obama Aides Come Clean About U.S.-Saudi War Crimes?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Lazare<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/21522\/saudi-arabia-obama-ben-rhodes-samantha-power-jamal-khashoggi-yemen-war?utm_source=samizdat&amp;utm_medium=partner&amp;utm_campaign=free\"><br \/>InTheseTimes.com<em><br \/><\/em><\/a>October 27, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Now that Saudi Arabia has become a P.R. liability, Samantha Power and Ben Rhodes have quietly condemned the war in Yemen. But when they had the power to stop it, they were complicit\u2026 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/kerry_obama_850_567.jpg?itok=dOyF8a61\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/kerry_obama_850_567.jpg?itok=dOyF8a61\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/kerry_obama_850_567.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/kerry_obama_850_567.jpg?itok=dOyF8a61 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"988a0dcf-7d71-4fbf-b553-4edbbe2cc031\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took the apparent murder and dismemberment of\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0columnist Jamal Khashoggi for the violence of the Saudi monarchy to finally register with the U.S. media and political elite. <strong>Since March 2015, the United States, Saudi Arabia and other allies have waged a war on Yemen that has killed tens of thousands of people, pushed the poorest country in the Middle East to the brink of famine and unleashed a devastating cholera outbreak<\/strong>. On behalf of its Saudi partner, the United States has shipped arms, refueled bomber jets, deployed troops and provided political cover\u2014all without a congressional vote, serious political debate or meaningful media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the dogged work of activists and the war\u2019s undeniable brutality have led to greater scrutiny from some in Congress.<strong> Also among the war\u2019s new critics are former high-ranking Obama aides, including former UN Ambassador Samantha Power and Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, both of whom got in line behind the U.S.-Saudi war on Yemen and defended the intervention. <\/strong>As U.S. participation in Saudi war crimes becomes a P.R. liability for those who built their personal brands on the Obama administration\u2019s supposed moral authority, former aides\u2019 criticisms force us to grapple with what constitutes atonement for complicity in mass killing\u2014and how to distinguish true accountability from a hollow exercise in image rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>On September 26, Power\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamanthaJPower\/status\/1045077050409848832\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0her support for a bill introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) to invoke the War Powers Resolution and end U.S. backing of the Saudi-led war. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Noting the \u201chorrific, pointless bloodshed,\u201d she acknowledged \u201cwe in the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/when-will-obama-aides-come-clean-about-u-s-saudi-war-crimes.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah LazareInTheseTimes.comOctober 27, 2018 Now that Saudi Arabia has become a P.R. liability, Samantha Power and Ben Rhodes have quietly condemned the war in Yemen. But when they had the power to stop it, they were complicit\u2026 It took the apparent murder and dismemberment of\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0columnist Jamal Khashoggi for the violence of the Saudi monarchy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}