MATT WELCH IS ALL OVER THE BUSH / SAUDI CONNECTION:

LOS ANGELES – Under a draft law being circulated in Washington, D.C., right now, Americans could be stripped of their citizenship if they provide “material support” to groups that carry out “terrorist” activities. Non-citizen residents could be deported on mere suspicion of threatening national security.

Should these odious measures pass, I hereby nominate the first candidates for expulsion from the country: Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to the United States, and his wife, Princess Haifa al Faisal.

Washington’s most senior diplomatic couple — Bandar has been ambassador for 20 years — have been ladling out “material support,” indirectly or directly or both, to suspected terrorists or their families for years. . . .

Barbara and George H. W. Bush have all but adopted Bandar and Haifa. “The Bushes are like my mother and father,” Haifa told The New Yorker. “I know if ever I needed anything, I could go to them.” In the May issue of The Atlantic, Robert Baer, a retired CIA agent, wrote that, around the Bush family Kennebunkport, Me., compound, the prince is known as “Bandar Bush.”

Read the whole thing. It’s pretty damning. I remain astonished that the Democrats haven’t made an issue of this. Could it be that they’ve been bought off?