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Your "offtopic" troll posts again? Can't help yourself. Not even aware of how you consistently take things off topic with your incessant personal attacks (hurt feelings)
Aug. 24, 2023
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has chosen a former career Army lawyer who served in Iraq to oversee the Guantánamo war court, a job that includes approving plea deals and deciding whether prosecutors can seek death sentences.
In a memo signed this week, Mr. Austin said that Susan K. Escallier, the former Army lawyer, would become the convening authority for the Office of Military Commissions on Oct. 8. The current convening authority, Jeffrey D. Wood, will voluntarily leave the job on that date, Mr. Austin’s memo said. - source NYT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases.
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Austin wrote in an order released Friday night that “in light of the significance of the decision,” he had decided that the authority to make a decision on accepting the plea agreements was his. He nullified Escallier’s approval.
source: AP
Now to address the Headline(s) you tend to run with -- what you have either willingly ignored, or worse accept as full truth and nothing but the truth by FOX News, the $1,000,000,000 Baby of litigation against Lying Media.
The Defense Department stunningly backtracked Friday on a plea deal that Pentagon prosecutors agreed to with three of the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, who await trial in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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Secretary Austin III is now taking the lead on the case for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi.
In his order, Austin relieved the official in charge of the military commission who had signed off on the original plea deals.
"Effective immediately, in the exercise of my authority, I hereby withdraw from the three pretrial agreements that you signed on July 31, 2024," the letter from the Secretary of Defense reads.
On Thursday, after news of the widely criticized deals broke, the White House claimed that President Biden "played no role" in the process.
"The White House learned yesterday that the Convening Authority for Military Commissions entered into pretrial agreements, negotiated by military prosecutors, with KSM and other 9/11 defendants," a White House National Security Council spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "The President and the White House played no role in this process. The President has directed his team to consult as appropriate with officials and lawyers at the Department of Defense on this matter." White House national security spokesman John Kirby reiterated that the White House played no role in the plea deal on Fox News Channel, adding that the administration was "not aware" of the deals until they were announced.
The dis-ingeniousness comes through with omissions or spin that doesn't fully represent truth. "The administration" is put forth as a way of personally blaming Biden/Harris. While the buck stops here is a great piece of stuff to hang on a wall, in reality it's just a quaint phrase usually used by weak minded folks.
The pentagon (we can only assume that Biden and the WH stepped in as it is not being reported in your link that they did) decision was technically and in reality, not final. The Secretary overrode a decision and had a person dismissed from their job over this. But it's election season and we all know anything labelled "The Administration" is a reference to Biden/Harris - the WH
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revokes plea deal for 9/11 terrorists — Fox News
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III revoked a plea agreement reached earlier this week with the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two alleged accomplices.apple.news
Excellent. Good for our defense secretary. Not something I always say about him or anyone in this administration.
But revoking the “deal” in order to keep the death penalty on the table for those rat fuckers IS the only right thing to do.
Kudos.
Context (always missing when FOX needs to propagandize::
Retired Army Lawyer Will Oversee Pentagon’s War Court
Susan Escallier, who served for 32 years, will be the new convening authority for the Sept. 11, U.S.S. Cole and Bali bombing cases at Guantánamo.Aug. 24, 2023
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has chosen a former career Army lawyer who served in Iraq to oversee the Guantánamo war court, a job that includes approving plea deals and deciding whether prosecutors can seek death sentences.
In a memo signed this week, Mr. Austin said that Susan K. Escallier, the former Army lawyer, would become the convening authority for the Office of Military Commissions on Oct. 8. The current convening authority, Jeffrey D. Wood, will voluntarily leave the job on that date, Mr. Austin’s memo said. - source NYT
Defense secretary overrides plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind and two other defendants
August 2, 2024WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases.
...
Austin wrote in an order released Friday night that “in light of the significance of the decision,” he had decided that the authority to make a decision on accepting the plea agreements was his. He nullified Escallier’s approval.
source: AP
Now to address the Headline(s) you tend to run with -- what you have either willingly ignored, or worse accept as full truth and nothing but the truth by FOX News, the $1,000,000,000 Baby of litigation against Lying Media.
The Defense Department stunningly backtracked Friday on a plea deal that Pentagon prosecutors agreed to with three of the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, who await trial in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
...
Secretary Austin III is now taking the lead on the case for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi.
In his order, Austin relieved the official in charge of the military commission who had signed off on the original plea deals.
"Effective immediately, in the exercise of my authority, I hereby withdraw from the three pretrial agreements that you signed on July 31, 2024," the letter from the Secretary of Defense reads.
On Thursday, after news of the widely criticized deals broke, the White House claimed that President Biden "played no role" in the process.
"The White House learned yesterday that the Convening Authority for Military Commissions entered into pretrial agreements, negotiated by military prosecutors, with KSM and other 9/11 defendants," a White House National Security Council spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "The President and the White House played no role in this process. The President has directed his team to consult as appropriate with officials and lawyers at the Department of Defense on this matter." White House national security spokesman John Kirby reiterated that the White House played no role in the plea deal on Fox News Channel, adding that the administration was "not aware" of the deals until they were announced.
The dis-ingeniousness comes through with omissions or spin that doesn't fully represent truth. "The administration" is put forth as a way of personally blaming Biden/Harris. While the buck stops here is a great piece of stuff to hang on a wall, in reality it's just a quaint phrase usually used by weak minded folks.
The pentagon (we can only assume that Biden and the WH stepped in as it is not being reported in your link that they did) decision was technically and in reality, not final. The Secretary overrode a decision and had a person dismissed from their job over this. But it's election season and we all know anything labelled "The Administration" is a reference to Biden/Harris - the WH
