Just days after Joe Biden returned from his first trip to the Middle East and shared a controversial fist-bump with the man accused of ordering the murder of a Washington Post columnist, the State Department has announced a major sale of military aircraft to a country accused of detaining the deceased columnist’s attorney.
The State Department notified the relevant committees in Congress on Tuesday that it had issued preliminary approval for a nearly $1bn sale of military aircraft including hardware, software and other logistical support for C-17 military-grade transport aircraft.
