Intel: How Congress is trying to get US prisoners out of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey
Congress is cracking down on increased instances of arrests of US citizens and diplomatic staff by American security partners in the Middle East.
The Senate’s foreign aid panel on Thursday adopted bipartisan language in a report accompanying its annual spending bill that would bar Saudi, Egyptian and Turkish officials from entering the United States if they have been “involved in the wrongful detention” of US citizens or locally employed staff at US diplomatic missions.
