Word: mallard
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...Mallard rejects this idea as "unrealistic," saying that he has been assured by Saudi and Americans alike that Americans have essentially no le gal rights in Saudi Arabia. The StateDepartment's failure to acknowledge this, Mallardsays, is effectively an abandonment of Americancitizens who have been mistreated abroad...
...fact, Mallard says he believes that duringthe 1980s the Reagan and Bush administrationsshielded Saudi officials from such complaints inorder "not to rock the boat" with the Saudi royalfamily...
...more than a decade, State DepartmentArabists have obfuscated investigations and aidedand abetted the Saudis every chance they got,"Mallard charges...
...Mallard accuses State Department Arabists ofbeing swayed from their duties both by SaudiArabia's strategic importance to the U.S. and by atacit "understanding" that when they leave thedepartment the Saudis will provide them withlucrative jobs...
...They have been selling the human rights ofU.S. citizens to the [Saudi Arabian] royalfamily," says Mallard, who also suggests thatprivate Saudi oil investments by influentialgovernment officials have been a factor in theState Department's lack of action on his case...