Top Democrat urges defense secretary to undo 9/11 plea deal revocation
by Brad Dress - 08/15/24 12:31 PM ET
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.”
Durbin’s letter comes as a judge at the Office of the Military Commissions that is overseeing the case against Mohammed, also known as KSM, and his accomplices, is reviewing the authority of Austin to revoke the plea deals earlier this month.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4829482-durbin-austin-911-case/
