The current Convening Authority for Military Commissions, Susan Escallier, didn’t go rogue.
In 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions learned the then Convening Authority "was exploring potential plea deals to end the long-delayed prosecution of five suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks, a move that would foreclose the possibility of execution ..." President Trump fired Convening Authority Harvey Rishikof.
Escallier made a deal this July, knowing full well what she could concede because President Biden declined to accept the terms in an offer last September but let negotiations continue.
The facts demonstrate that the White House oversaw the negotiations.
Kamala Harris knows the deal and is not being questioned. It had to look like an independent decision, not a miscalculation made by a President with diminishing mental faculties.
If this agreement stands – and it might – it will let the admitted mass-murderers of 3,000 men, women, and children avoid the death penalty. But Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his underlings didn’t agree to trade communal living at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, aka Gitmo, to do life in grim solitary confinement cells at Supermax.
If the agreement’s full terms were revealed now, the concessions made to al Qaeda’s top terrorists might shock the nation and tip the outcome of the 2024 Presidential election.
Does the deal include communal........