John Hinderaker | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
"The Biden administration’s cowardly negotiations with these uber-terrorists and their lawyers–America’s top law firms lined up to represent the captured terrorists–is at best a joke."
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"Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the principal organizer of the September 11 attacks that killed around 3,000 Americans. He has been held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay for more than two decades. Yesterday the Biden administration announced that it has reached a “plea deal” with KSM and two high-ranking al Qaeda confederates:
“In exchange for removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment, these three Accused have agreed to plead guilty to all of the charged offenses, including the murder of the 2,976 people listed in the charge sheet,” said a letter signed by Rear Adm. Aaron C. Rugh, chief prosecutor for the OMC, and sent to victims’ families Wednesday.
"Well, that is big of them. We already knew they were guilty, so the “deal” is our agreement not to execute them, in exchange for nothing. KSM will now live out his days in comfort–much more comfort, I suspect, than he enjoyed in his terrorist days–and as a celebrity. Unlike most of us, KSM achieved the great goal of his life, a triumph which he will now have many more years to savor.
"It is reasonable to blame the weak and borderline anti-American Biden administration for this travesty, and to be sure they deserve opprobrium. But the original fault goes back much further. The idea of treating these terrorists, whom we used military means to capture, as mere criminal defendants entitled to the panoply of criminal procedures available to Americans, including, at the end, plea bargaining, was a farce from the beginning. They should have been interrogated mercilessly and then shot, a long time ago. They deserved nothing more." . . .
