The Biden-Harris administration scrapped a shocking plea deal that was signed this week with the terrorists answerable for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults on america — and relieved the senior U.S. official who proposed the deal.
Retired Brig. Common Susan Okay. Escalier, who was answerable for overseeing the conflict trials at Guantanamo Bay, was relieved of his submit by Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin after his group entered right into a pre-trial plea settlement with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih. Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam Al Hawsawi.
The deal allowed the terrorists to flee the loss of life penalty, in change for them pleading responsible to killing 2,976 individuals and serving a most sentence of life in jail.
By eradicating Escallier, Austin took cost of the case and promptly canceled the deal, which means the loss of life penalty is again on the desk, days after a public backlash towards the Biden-Harris administration.
“Efficient instantly, within the train of my authority, I hereby withdraw from the three pretrial agreements you signed on July 31, 2024,” Austin mentioned.
High US lawmakers slammed the Biden-Harris administration for the plea deal, together with Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
McConnell mentioned the plea deal was “a flagrant abdication of the federal government’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 mentioned. “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 choice to spare these mass murderers the loss of life penalty in the identical week that Israel eradicated a few of Iran’s most trusted terrorist proxies is a very bitter tablet to swallow.”
“In the meantime, the Biden-Harris administration nonetheless needs to launch different Guantanamo terrorists all over the world,” he concluded. “The administration’s cowardice within the face of terror is a nationwide shame.”
“23 years in the past, America watched in horror as hundreds of harmless Individuals died,” he continued. “America mourned for weeks as first responders laid ashes at Floor Zero, on the Pentagon and on the Shanksville crash web site. For greater than twenty 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.”
Sen. Rep. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mentioned the plea deal made it a “very, excellent week, when you’re a terrorist.”
“When you’re somebody who needs to kill Individuals, it has been a rare week as a result of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris gave Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a present, they agreed to take the loss of life penalty off the desk and spare his life,” Cruz mentioned. “It is an absolute outrage. It is an insult to the households of all these killed on 9/11.”
