WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases.
The move comes two days after the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, announced that the official appointed to oversee the war court, retired Brig. Gen. Susan Escallier, had approved plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two accused accomplices, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, in the attacks.
Letters sent to families of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the al-Qaida attacks said the plea agreement stipulated the three would serve life sentences at most.
Austin wrote in an order released Friday night that “in light of the significance of the decision,” he had decided that the authority to make a decision on accepting the plea agreements was his. He nullified Escallier’s approval.
Some families of the attack’s victims condemned the deal for cutting off any possibility of full trials and possible death penalties. Republicans were quick to fault the Biden administration for the deal, although the White House said after it was announced it had no knowledge of it.
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a member of the Armed Services Committee, earlier Friday had condemned the plea deal on social media as “disgraceful.” Cotton said he had introduced legislation that would mandate the 9/11 defendants face trial and the possibility of the death penalty…
Obama vs Biden. Obama and the Kamala gang want the 9/11 thing off the table, Biden doesn’t. Either just to be a jerk or because he wants to salvage his legacy.
The real masterminds behind those attacks are likely safe and sound with no fear of ever being exposed in this life. We’ll probably have to wait for the General Judgement when all will be unveiled. They will not escape Divine judgement.
9/11 really happened. Real Muslims overtook planes and rammed them into the Pentagon, the Twin Towers, and Shanksville, Pa. Jet fuel doesn’t melt steel, it does soften it, which allowed the towers to collapse under its immense weight.
Were Osama and KSM the “masterminds”? Maybe they thought they were. But the CIA and Mossad likely greased the rails. We know that the CIA station chief in Jordan was John Brennan of CIA fame. He signed off on visas for many of the hijackers. And we know that 60 Mossad agents were detained after 9/11 and were exposed as knowing about the event before it happened.
The results of 9/11 are disastrous. The US surveillance state began in earnest then, as the Patriot Act and the FISA courts (which of course were abused) allowed the US government to spy on citizens with impunity. And the attack also gave the US the moral justification for warring on behalf of Israel and the MIC.
We are on a permanent war footing now because of 9/11. And finally what will be the end if the future war with Iran on behalf of wonderful allies the Israelis. Which also means Russia will be involved. World War 3.
Oh, did you know that Israel stole 500 pounds of Uranium from the US to build its nuclear weapons in the 1960s? But I digress.
Mike, please take some time to read at least the introduction, tables and conclusions of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth’s detailed report of the collapses of WTC-1, 2 and 7 at:
https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/beyond-misinformation
The evidence for controlled demolition of all three buildings appwars overwhelming.
We have been lied to by mainstream media about most things, 9/11 included.
No.
Why not check out these arguments? Was this the one event in recent US history that we got the whole truth about from the media and the govt (but I repeat myself) At least at least look at the story of building 7 and of the insurance policies taken on all these buildings and of the Gelatin artists and of the untimely deaths of all the eyewitnesses who went public with their stories which diverged from the official narratives. Or the fact that the black boxes were never recovered but the passport of one of the pilots was found on top of the dust heap from the second tower.Or the simple fact that in 2001 it was not possible to make crystal clear, uninterrupted cellphone calls from planes at that speed and altitude. Or that the most experienced pilots in the most sophisticated simulators cannot replicate hitting the buildings at the altitude and speed in a domestic airliner Or the fact that buildings that fall from weakened steel do not go at freefall speed and turn to dust in and cause molten steel to flow at the base of the towers for weeks after. Or plane crashes with no wreckage. Or just check out any of Newton’s Laws. (They seem to have been completely suspended that day.) Or Bush’s reaction at the elementary school. (The Dog that Didn’t Bark was one of many.good documentarors about this topic.) So many obvious lies, yet for some reason people still are afraid to challenge the official govt narrative. “We saw it with our own eyes” Yes that is the brilliance of this deception. What we saw that day on tv cannot be explained by the story we were told about it.
Who said I didn’t check out the arguments? Of course I did. The only thing remotely sketchy is Building 7.
No, Paul.
Mark’s site, Mark’s rules… but disappointing nonetheless.
Yes, we’re lied to about everything.
No, the gate-keepers didn’t take a day off from lying on one Tuesday of September in 2001.
I’ll leave it at that.
And they knew the next day that Bin Ladin did it with help from Hussein and that light summer read called the “Patriot Act” ready to go followed by a year of fear mongering. Hmm, I see a pattern.,..
Kamala tangent – has anyone seen her Christmas video?
I just need to know if it is likely one of those new AI fakeries. Because if it’s real – it’s demons manifesting. https://x.com/i/status/1819122436358484345 & needs broader audience
Otherwise, “Never mind”
“Ooohh! That’s different.
Never mind.”
(SNL Emily Litella – violins on television)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLeaSWY37I