Good day all. I’ve held back on commenting on the news that someone in the Biden Maladministration was going to give the planners of the 9/11 attack a sweetheart deal. I don’t know the details of the deal, other then we wouldn’t hang the bastards.
When the news broke about the plea deal, people went ballistic. A number of people had thought that these scum have been hanged years ago, not vacationing at Guantanamo Bay. The Republicans in Congress flat out exploded at the military prosecutors who offered the deal. Well now we have some good news. For the first time since he was sworn in as Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin did the right thing. Here are the details from Fox News:
The Defense Department stunningly backtracked Friday on a plea deal that Pentagon prosecutors agreed to with three of the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, who await trial in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
The deal that stirred national outrage and took the death penalty off of the table has been revoked by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III in a terse memo.
Secretary Austin III is now taking the lead on the case for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi.
In his order, Austin relieved the official in charge of the military commission who had signed off on the original plea deals.
“Effective immediately, in the exercise of my authority, I hereby withdraw from the three pretrial agreements that you signed on July 31, 2024,” the letter from the Secretary of Defense reads.
What I, and I have no doubt, millions of others, including Congress, want to know is, who was that idiot official was who cooked up that plea deal? (I have seen a name, but it was in comments and I have no verification of it)
The powerful House Armed Services Committee announced earlier Friday it was launching an investigation into the plea deals, which Chairman Mike Rogers, R.-Ala., called “unconscionable.”
“I, along with much of our nation and Congress, are deeply shocked and angered by news that the terrorist mastermind and his associates who planned the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, which killed nearly 3000 innocent people, were offered a plea deal,” Rogers wrote in the letter, first obtained by Fox News Digital. Rogers called news of the deals a “gut punch” to victims’ families.
The utter contempt by the prosecutors should have every single one, if they are military, cashiered from the service and if they are civilian, dismissed and black listed. Now the question is, who authorized this? The way Austin came down on the prosecutors who cooked this up makes me think he wasn’t aware of it. This is not something that some local team would do without someone very high up agreeing to it.
On Thursday, after news of the widely criticized deals broke, the White House claimed that President Biden “played no role” in the process.
“The White House learned yesterday that the Convening Authority for Military Commissions entered into pretrial agreements, negotiated by military prosecutors, with KSM and other 9/11 defendants,” a White House National Security Council spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “The President and the White House played no role in this process. The President has directed his team to consult as appropriate with officials and lawyers at the Department of Defense on this matter.” White House national security spokesman John Kirby reiterated that the White House played no role in the plea deal on Fox News Channel, adding that the administration was “not aware” of the deals until they were announced.
Frankly, considering the history of the worst president* in American history, along with his handlers, I really doubt this denial. Now it’s possible that this came out of the DoJ. If so, then Garland’s head should be put on a virtual pike in front of the building. Meanwhile. The House Armed services committee, which has oversight of the Defense Department, (As does the Senate), is continuing to ask “WTF??” Here are those details from Fox News:
House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., told Fox News Digital his committee will continue to probe a scrapped plea deal with the alleged terrorists behind the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks.
“I appreciate that Secretary Austin listened to my concerns and reversed this horrible decision,” Rogers told Fox News Digital on Saturday. “However, this plea deal should never have occurred. I still expect the Secretary to provide HASC with answers on how this happened.”
While Austin did one right thing, I don’t expect him to provide any answers to the committee, especially if it makes him, Biden, Harris or any other Democrat look bad.
Rogers wrote to Austin on Thursday demanding documents related to the plea deal, including “all documents and communications containing terms, conditions, agreements, side-deals, or any mutually developed, related, conditional, or linked agreements with any party relating to terms and conditions of the plea agreements.”
The GOP committee chairman also asked for records of communications spanning the Biden administration regarding the plea deal, which he called “unconscionable.”
“I, along with much of our nation and Congress, are deeply shocked and angered by news that the terrorist mastermind and his associates who planned the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, which killed nearly 3000 innocent people, were offered a plea deal,” Rogers wrote in the letter, first obtained by Fox News Digital.
“Tragically, the news is a ‘gut punch’ to many of the victims’ families.”
Actually it was more along the lines of a kick to the groin. As it is, the committee has graciously given the DoD until August 23rd to cough up all the documents, communications and the names of everyone involved in this decision. I don’t expect the DoD to provide anything.
I expect that in the next week or so, the Biden maladministration will claim executive privilege on all the communications. Of course, that will confirm to many that the White House was the one that cooked up the plea deal in the first place.
The defense secretary did not explain why he had not intervened before the plea deals were signed and publicly released. The Department of Defense declined to comment on Austin’s decision.
There is literally only one excuse, and not a very good one. He wasn’t told nor was anyone in the chain of command. If this was some JAG officer that made the plea offer, then he or she is done, unless they roll over on the higher ups. This is not something some junior officer would cook up without someone much higher up either giving the ok or issuing the order.
The truth be told, this should never have happened. The three “defendants” should have been shot and their bodies tossed to the sharks years ago. Hell, it didn’t take more then a few years to try and hang all the Nazis after World War Two ended. This whole things has stunk for 15 years.
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