Durbin calls on Austin to reinstate controversial plea deals for 9/11 terrorists

PusLikr71 · Aug 5, 2024

Durbin is calling for plea deals to be re-instated for 9/11 terrorists to avoid death penalty.

I just don't know about this and don't feel its a good idea. Any comments?

~Zen~ · Aug 6, 2024

It was a surprising move...

Piney · Mar 4, 2025

Senator D.Durbin ought to loose the anger and concern himself with his home State which is a fiscal mess.

MeAgain · Mar 4, 2025

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill) is urging Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to reconsider a decision to revoke the plea deals reached with accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two of his accomplices.
In a letter to Austin, Durbin said the “best path to achieving justice would have been a fair trial” in the 9/11 case. Families of the deadly terrorist attacks, he wrote, “have been waiting for more than two decades for justice, and the trial has not even started.”
“Children who lost a parent in the attacks have grown into adults, all without the finality of a guilty verdict,” he continued, adding he was “troubled by your decision to revoke the guilty pleas that, in the reasoned judgment of the prosecutors of the case, were the best path forward to finality and justice.” ~ MSN
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The U.S. has only ever convicted one person related to plotting the 9/11 attacks, a hijacker who was caught before the planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. More broadly, the military commission has struggled to reach convictions in cases because of allegations of torture used to extract evidence, including those against Mohammed and his alleged accomplices.

A military judge overseeing the Mohammed case ruled in a special order this week that he was considering what authorities Austin had in the case to revoke the plea deals. He is asking for legal briefs by Aug. 20. ~ MSN
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