“WE SMOKED OUT THE PRINCE:” Plaintiffs’ lawyers suing Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 attacks seem pretty happy about how things are going.

UPDATE: Matt Welch has some thoughts here. Bush’s intimacy with the House of Saud is a major weakness, and the only reason that I can see for the Democrats’ not exploiting it is that they’ve been bought off, too. By the way, from the article linked above, here’s a list of lawyers retained by the Saudis:

Baker Botts, Sultan’s law firm, for example, still boasts former secretary of State James Baker as one of its senior partners. Its recent alumni include Robert Jordan, the former personal lawyer for President Bush who is now U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

An internal list of other law firms retained in the case, reviewed by NEWSWEEK , reads like a veritable “who’s who” of the U.S. legal community. Among those firms and their Saudi clients are: Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Prince Mohammed al Faisal); Kellog, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans (Prince Turki al Faisal); Jones, Day (the Binladin Group); Ropes & Grey (Khaled bin Mahfouz); White & Case,(the Al-Rajhi Banking Group); King & Spalding (the Arab Bank and Youssef Nada); Akin Gump (Mohammed Hussein Al-Almoudi); and Fulbright & Jaworski (Nimir Petroleum.)

I wonder if Jones, Day carries that client on their firm resume?