In addition to the pieces I've already cited, there are several I should note:
Pepe Escobar writes in The Asia Times: "Were this to happen in the Middle East, Husseini would have been duly kidnapped by Saudi intel, tortured and snuffed out. ... Was this a one-off? Obviously not. Flashback to January 2009, at the same National Press Club, during a news conference by then-Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni. When Livni was asked a tough question - once again by Husseini - the mike was cut..."Press Club member Wayne Madsen writes: "the U.S. defense and intelligence contractor, Harris Corporation, has provided, gratis, goods and services to the National Press Club. Harris has contracts with the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information to provide television studios throughout the strict-censorship nation. More alarming is the fact that Harris has provided services to Saudi intelligence, once headed by Turki." Madsen has been dismissed by some as a conspiracy theorist. I have not examined his writing well enough to form an opinion, but I think he's probably more credible than most of the media that insisted Iraq had WMDs. He's also one of the nicest people around the Press Club. In this case, just doing some elementary searching, he seems to be on to something: "National Press Club Recognizes Harris Corporation with Major Award" and "Harris Corporation Continues to Win Saudi Television Contracts for its Integrated High-Definition Broadcast Technology." My old friend Greg Tucker-Kellogg, now a professor of biochemistry in Singapore, writes: "Sam Husseini and I went to college together back in the 1980s. I tried to teach him to play guitar, he tried to get me to read Chomsky. Sam grew up in New York. When Sam and his father became naturalized US citizens during Sam’s junior year, Osama Farid Husseini briefly became Samuel Frank Hennessy; we bought him a bottle of liquor and a book of Irish pub jokes so he could learn the heritage of his temporarily adopted surname. After graduation, Sam, who majored in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) worked at Moody’s, which he disliked, but rather than taking a job offer with JP Morgan gave up his corporate career for independent journalism. ..." The rabidly pro-Israeli group CAMERA was the only one from those quarters that made note of the affair to my knowledge. "Reporter Asks a Good Question, Gets Suspended from National Press Club." It is remarkable that all the pro-war noise makers who have spent much of the last ten years proclaiming their commitment to democracy in the Mideast have now vanished. This case is but a small illustration of it.