Posted on 10/21/2022 6:54:17 PM PDT by bitt
The Biden administration is close to reaching a shameful plea deal that could exclude the death penalty for five Islamic terrorists charged with coordinating the 2001 attacks, sources told Judicial Watch during a recent trip to the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where the jihadists are incarcerated. For years Judicial Watch has traveled to the U.S. Naval base in southeast Cuba to observe the military tribunal trials of 9/11 terrorists and others, including USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. Judicial Watch also covers all the hearings held by the Obama-created parole panel known as the Periodic Review Board via satellite video feed at the Pentagon. In the last year alone, the panel has approved the release of four one-time “forever prisoners” previously denied parole because they were considered a threat to national security.
During a recent weeklong visit to Gitmo, Judicial Watch learned from various sources that the new plea deal is on the verge of becoming official. Since the middle of September news reports have circulated saying that the administration is planning to get rid of the death penalty for the five key terrorists involved in planning 9/11. The men—plot mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), Ammar al-Baluchi, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, Ramzi Binalshibh and Walid bin Attash—have been jailed at the top security compound since 2006. Under the arrangement the men would serve life in prison, and some are expected to negotiate lesser sentences, which would only add to the outrage of the Biden administration’s behind-the-scenes pact. Back in 2009 the Obama administration considered changing the law for military commissions at Gitmo to allow terrorists facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial.
During Judicial Watch’s recent trip to Gitmo, the commission held two closed hearings and therefore no observers were permitted to attend. However, defense attorneys and others heavily involved with the legal proceedings shared updates on the status of the cases. Specifically, al-Baluchi’s defense team expressed tremendous optimism that the Biden administration’s recent directive involving settlement discussions should act to expedite cases. “Taking the death penalty off the table should significantly reduce the length of the proceedings,” according to one key defense team member. Another representative of the terrorism defense seemed quite confident that an outcome could be much closer once the death penalty is no longer a factor. Various sources confirmed that key plea proposals were “under active consideration at high levels of the government.”
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Tnis is why you never give up the death penalty. You try them and carry out the sentence swiftly, after a proper trial.
Better treatment than J 6 political prisoners.
I guess I must ask why are they still breathing over twenty years later? This will only embolden our enemies who appear see Biden as weak. Unfortunately if he goes through with this there’s no way to put a death sentence back on the table.
Next thing ya know Josef will offer the gitmos positions in the
TalyO’Biden admin.
( this has the islamonatzi Obama smeared all over it )
Brandon probably deserves it more than they do. Or will shortly the way he is going.
There was zero legitimate reason that any detainees connected to the 9/11 attacks lived beyond the presidential term of George W. Bush. That is a George W. Bush crime he needs to answer for, not a Joe Biden or Barak Obama problem that they need to justify for attempting to solve in their own way.
I blame most things wrong with the world on Democrats, but in this case...
NOPE!!
100% Bushes Fault.
He should of executed them when they were captured, ALL of them.
They’re still around? Even the murderer who beheaded Daniel Pearl? The criminal justice system is broken.
Jobama and the DC communist democrat Muslim surrender monkeys will be giving them houses in the American home land and paying to feed and care for these 9/11 terrorists for the rest of their lives. This is as bad as the Jobama surrender and withdrawal from Afghanistan where he left ISIS with $85 billion in American military hardware. No doubt it was all orchestrated by the Muslim POS, Obozo.
What? So that they can pray to their false prophet for destruction of the West longer?
You mean to say some people still believe that Islamist terrorists perpetrated 9/11?
What’s the justification for this? They deserve to die 100 times over.
Swell
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