Last week, Congress passed the 9/11 bill—formally known as the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. For Congressional Republicans, the opportunity to override a presidential veto should have been a celebratory moment.
Instead, they have buyer’s remorse. A day after their legislative win, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “It appears as if there may be some unintended ramifications.”
But Charles Sennott, executive editor of The GroundTruth Project, praised the wide bipartisan support for the bill and stands by its intentions, even if Congress will need to tweak some of its finer details.
"If there's one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on, it's that the Saudis have never answered for the fact that 15 of 19 hijackers are from Saudi Arabia, that the ideology of Wahhabism, which they have put out into the world, has created a virus of radicalization that we live with every day, that the families are owed an opportunity for justice on this," Sennott said.
"The fact that it resonates as one of the only bipartisan issues in a really deeply divided time strikes me," he said. "We are on to something with this."
To hear more from Charles Sennott on the 9/11 bill and more—including a new timetable announced for Britain's exit from the European Union—tune in to Boston Public Radio above.
