White House Asked For Their Message To Victims’ Families After Plea Deal Given To 9/11 Mastermind

Published 2024-08-01
During a White House press briefing on Thursday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the plea deal for 9/11 defendants including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and closing Guantanamo Bay.

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All Comments (21)
  • So we get the patriot act and they get a plea deal?!?! Make it make sense please.
  • He has to stay in office for six months to make sure things like this are taken care of for his foreign clients. And Hunter's pardon.
  • This woman/person is evil. She thinks that the president laying a WREATH at a ceremony once a year is the same thing as giving the families justice? This is the worst White House employee in American history.
  • @NHLblkgurl
    Lies lies lies lies .. vote these grifters out.
  • @leolo2222
    She always says a lot of words that never address the question.
  • @ghalgren
    Always talking in circles and saying nothing that’s not written down for her to recite.
  • I've never seen a person more out of their depth than this.
  • Terry Strada, the national chair for 9/11 Families United, said the news came as a gut punch as she stepped out of a Manhattan federal courthouse Wednesday afternoon from a daylong hearing in the families’ ongoing litigation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Strada expressed concern that the plea deal news will overshadow the newly unsealed evidence in the families’ fight to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its purported role in the terror plot. The kingdom has denied any involvement in the attacks. It’s unclear where Mohammed and his co-defendants will serve out their sentences. The Biden administration has made it a priority to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba where the defendants have been held, repatriating several detainees who were no longer considered significant threats to national security. But dozens of detainees still remain in the facility.
  • I find it difficult to believe that a Plea Deal wouldn’t involve the Department of State. They take their orders from the adm.
  • Stop lying for once, I pray to God! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸
  • We don't negotiate with terrorists totally uncalled for
  • The US has reached a plea deal with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants accused of plotting the 2001 terror attacks, according to the Defense Department. The pretrial agreement – reached after 27 months of negotiations – takes the death penalty off the table for Mohammed, Walid Bin ‘Attash, and Mustafa al Hawsawi, prosecutors said in a letter, obtained by CNN, sent to the families of 9/11 victims and survivors shortly before the Department of Defense announced the news in a press release Wednesday evening. After beginning negotiations in March 2022, the three men agreed to plead guilty to all charges, including the murder of the 2,976 people listed in the charging sheet, the families were told. Mohammed and his co-defendants will enter guilty pleas at a plea hearing that could come as early as next week, according to the letter.
  • Gitmo needs to stay open so the swamp creatures have a place to go. Let's go Trump🇺🇸