Lawyers for 9/11 Defendants Claim Corruption Behind Tossed Deal

Last week, a plea deal was announced that would take the death penalty off the table for three members of the 9/11 terrorist group.

When the deal was announced, there was national outrage, which led to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin claiming he knew nothing about the deal, then he pulled it back off the table.

Now the attorneys for these terrorists are claiming corruption led to the deal being removed.

Unjust

I have always wondered what type of people would be so desperate to defend such despicable people.

Yes, everyone deserves a fair trial and legal defense in this country, but if I were an attorney, no amount of money would make me walk into a courtroom to defend these people.

Yet, now that the deal has been pulled off the table, attorneys for the terrorists are whining to the media about how unfair it is to have the deal revoked.

Walter Ruiz, a lawyer for Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, stated, “We have had an unprecedented act by a government official to pull back what was a valid agreement.

“For us, it raises very serious questions about continuing to engage in a system that seems so obviously corrupt and rigged.”

Well, if the deal was not run through the proper channels first, then it was not a legal deal from the get-go.

Secretary Austin responded, “There’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think of 9/11 and the Americans that were murdered that day; also those who died trying to save lives and the troops and their families who gave so much for this country in the years following that.

“I’m deeply mindful of my duty to all those whose lives were lost or changed forever on 9/11, and I fully understand that no measure of justice can ever make up for their loss.

“So this wasn’t a decision that I took lightly, but I have long believed that the families of the victims, our servicemembers, and the American public deserve the opportunity to see military commissions — commission trials carried out in this case.”

There will be no empathy for these terrorists by this writer, as I believe every one of them should suffer the same fate as the nearly 3,000 people who were killed in those horrific attacks.

I find it infuriating that they have been able to breathe for more than two decades after the events of that day.