"News of the plea deal elicited swift political reaction. On August 2, 2024, Republican U.S. Representative Mike Lawler of New York introduced the “Justice for 9/11 Act” to prevent the Biden administration from offering plea deals to KSM and his associates. The legislation also seeks to keep the men at Guantanamo Bay in solitary confinement and eliminate any option of extradition.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed | Counter Extremism Project . . ."On July 31, 2024, the military commission at Guantanamo Bay announced that Brigadier General Susan Escallier, the now-retired official appointed to oversee the war court, approved plea deals with KSM and his co-defendants. The pretrial deal stipulated that defendants would serve life sentences at most. Family members of some of the victims rejected the deal as they sought full trials and possible death penalties for the defendants. On August 2, 2024, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin overrode the plea agreement after claiming he had the authority to either accept or reject plea agreements.
" A previous Department of Defense statement on July 11, 2024, noted that pre-trial proceedings were scheduled for September 16, 2024, through October 18, 2024. The effect of Austin’s ruling on the timeline remained unclear as of mid-August 2024.". . .
. . ."It also points to Biden's likely pressure to get the matter resolved before he left office, as the Post noted. In reality, there should have been no plea deal. JAG advocates like Escallier shouldn't have had any authority to rule out the death penalty like it was some petty mugging murder case, all by herself with her woke cronies."
"At best, this is Biden & Co. bungling literally the most important military prosecution in American history. Even on the way out, Joe can’t help staining the office he served in and hurting the country he pretends to love."
"The Biden administration’s toxic legacy continues to do grave harm to Americans and the national interest; the latest outrage is the renewed likelihood that the 9/11 masterminds will avoid the death penalty.
"On Monday, an appeals court tossed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s move to quash plea deals offered to Khalid Sheik Mohammed and co-conspirators Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi.
"Those deals were signed in July by senior defense official and retired Brig. Gen. Susan Escallier, an Austin appointee to the Office of Military Commissions." . . .Post Editorial Board
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl and a central role in 30 other attacks and plots in the U.S. and worldwide that killed thousands of victims, . . ."I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan," Mohammed is quoted as saying in a transcript of a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, released by the Pentagon.
" 'For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head," he added." . . .
No photo found showed the Sheikh holding Pearl's head so we had to substitute Kathy Griffin's fantasy photo in it's place.
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