US lawmakers on Wednesday rebuked the Biden-Harris administration after reaching a plea take care of three Islamic terrorists who carried out the 9/11 assaults.
Prosecutors entered into pre-trial agreements with 9/11 masterminds Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam Al Hawsawi.
In a letter to the households of the victims, the Workplace of the Army Fee (OMC) stated: “In trade for the removing of the demise penalty as a attainable punishment, these three accused have agreed to plead responsible to all of the crimes charged, together with the two,976 listed within the indictment for homicide.
Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell (R-KY) responded to the information, calling the Biden-Harris administration’s transfer “an outrageous abdication of presidency’s duty to guard America and ship justice.”
“The vulnerability of the Biden-Harris administration within the face of the sworn enemies of the American individuals apparently is aware of no bounds,” McConnell stated. “The one factor worse than negotiating with terrorists is negotiating with them after they’re in custody. The households of their victims and the American individuals deserve actual justice. The administration’s resolution to spare these mass murderers the demise penalty in the identical week that Israel eradicated a few of Iran’s most trusted terrorist proxies is a very bitter capsule to swallow.”
“In the meantime, the Biden-Harris administration nonetheless desires to launch different Guantanamo terrorists world wide,” he concluded. “The administration’s cowardice within the face of terror is a nationwide shame.”
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Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) posted on social media: “The Biden-Harris administration has completed the unthinkable: They’ve agreed to a plea take care of the mastermind of the 9/11 assaults, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of his associates.”
“23 years in the past, America watched in horror as hundreds of harmless People died,” he continued. “America mourned for weeks as first responders laid ashes at Floor Zero, on the Pentagon and on the Shanksville crash website. For greater than 20 years, the households of these killed by these terrorists are awaiting justice. This plea deal is a slap within the face to these households. They deserved higher from the Biden-Harris administration.”
Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) didn’t subject statements condemning the plea deal.
