Posted on 01/18/2017 8:50:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
As his time in the White House winds down, President Barack Obama received an unusual piece of mail: a letter from accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Officials confirmed that the letter arrived at the White House to CBS News, but are declining to provide further details.
Mohammed is awaiting his death-penalty trial at Guantanamo Bay, accused of planning and orchestrating the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.
The Miami Herald, which first reported on the letter, says it was written in 2014, and was only delivered after a judge ordered reluctant Guantanamo Bay prison officials to put it in the mail.
The Herald reports that because it was delivered before Donald Trump takes office on Friday, Mr. Obama should be able to take it with him into private life.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Play VIDEO Khalid Sheikh Mohammed The Herald reports Mohammed “wrote to Obama in 2014 about ‘Muslim oppression at the hands of the West in general and the United States in particular,’ his lawyer David Nevin said then. He also shares his views on what happened in Iraq during the period of U.S. sanctions and ‘events in Palestine and Gaza over the years.’”
The Pentagon’s chief war crimes prosecutor, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, reportedly did not want the letter delivered, saying it amounted to propaganda.
Mohammed has been described previously by observers as something of an attention junkie. He has asked to wear military camouflage in court, saved berries from his meals to dye his beard orange, and flipped through magazines while being spoken to by a judge.
Before being taken to Guantanamo Bay following his 2003 capture in his pajamas in a suburban Pakistan home, Mohammed was subjected to the most brutal of the CIA’s harsh interrogation methods, and he reportedly confessed to a host of atrocities.
I sure hope NOT but I heard the other day, and I can’t remember where, that the Muslim in the WH can pardon someone right up til noon. There was mention of a BIG last minute pardon coming. I was thinking at the time HRC but maybe it’s this. He has more unmitigated gall than anyone I have ever seen in public life in my entire life so it wouldn’t surprise me.
How much will his pardon cost him?
Not only can he issue pardons/amnesties/commutations until the last minute, the actions do not even need to be made public.
Hillary could have a pardon in hand and we wouldn’t know unless she’s prosecuted, or until it shows up in a government document dump years later.
he is going to pardon him? was it a confession?
Evidently not brutal enough!
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