Austin Gets an Angry Earful Over Guantanamo Bay Plea Deal

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his friends just got the Hunter Biden treatment.
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The mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terror attacks – and two of his accomplices – thought they had a really sweet plea deal. Not so fast, Lloyd Austin countered in response to public outrage. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his friends just got the Hunter Biden treatment. The Defense Secretary canceled the insanity of Susan Escallier and he’s thinking about canceling the retired general’s career as a judge. Austin hasn’t made up his mind on that, yet.

Plea deal revoked

When the public found out about the plea deal reached with one of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted lieutenants, Lloyd Austin’s phone melted. He claims that nobody told him about it.

With reporters howling in outrage, the Defense Secretary needed red meat for the wolves. So, he threw them retired Brigadier General Susan Escallier. She oversees the Pentagon’s Guantanamo war court.

On Friday, August 2, Austin announced he relieved Escallier “of her authority to enter into pre-trial agreements in the case and took on the responsibility himself.” He can’t believe she went behind his back like that.

His cancellation of the deal came only two days after it was announced on Wednesday. The agreement “reportedly would have taken the death penalty off the table.” It also would have eliminated any trial.

Relatives of the victims were furious to learn of the deal and they quickly went public with their outrage. Austin doesn’t need a weatherman to know which way the political wind blows. He’s already in trouble for hiding his medical condition from the world, while quietly undergoing secret “procedures” without telling anyone at the office.

Responsibility for such a decision should rest with me,” Austin wrote in a memo to Escallier. “I hereby withdraw from the three pre-trial agreements that you signed on July 31, 2024 in the above-referenced case.

Austin relieved Escallier of her authority to enter into pre-trial agreements.

Guilty of conspiracy

When the Pentagon broke the news, they “did not elaborate on details.” Joe Biden’s Secret Service team is stretched thin enough, already.

New York Times doesn’t mind causing trouble so they reported that “Mohammed and the accomplices, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi, had agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy in exchange for a life sentence.” The deal makes a “trial that could lead to their executions” unnecessary.

It’s no surprise that “Mohammed is the best-known inmate at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.” George W. Bush set it up in 2002 with advice from his dad, who used to run the CIA before he became president. The Bush dynasty are experts at covert operations conducted by shadow armies, just ask Oliver North.

Keeping the world’s nastiest terrorists on ice in Cuba is a lot safer than having them here. Another benefit is that it gives loopholes which can be exploited by “interrogators.” Gina Haspel would be quick to confirm, it’s not waterboarding if you use diesel. Part of the purpose of the deal was keeping some unpleasant things out of the papers.

It’s pretty clear that Mohammed engineered “the plot to fly hijacked commercial passenger aircraft into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon.” He’s directly responsible for killing almost 3,000 people. It also sparked the war in Afghanistan.

Even so, the “cases against them have been bogged down in pre-trial maneuverings for years while the accused remained held at Guantanamo Bay.” The deal was meant to quietly cover up Defense arguments over “whether they could be tried fairly after having undergone methodical torture at the hands of the CIA.

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