Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio said the Biden-Harris administration rescinded the plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans, after realizing it was a “political disaster.”
“I think they realized this was a political disaster. I mean, this is a guy who killed thousands of innocent Americans, and the Biden administration is taking a much tougher stance on a much less significant criminal than a guy who killed thousands of innocent Americans,” he said on his SiriusXM show. Breitbart News Saturday Hosted by Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.
“So it’s shameful that a plea deal has been made here. They’re negotiating with him but not with a lot of other people who, frankly, deserve mercy from the Department of Justice,” he said.
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The plea deal was reached between military prosecutors and lawyers for Mohammed and two of his co-defendants, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, and was signed by retired Army Brigadier General Susan Eskarie, a senior official in the Biden administration.
After the plea deal was reached It was reached and announced last week.There was strong backlash from families of 9/11 victims, veterans, other members of the public, and from Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
The plea deal vacated the death sentences and instead allowed Mohammed and his co-defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges and receive life sentences.
By Friday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin withdrew from the plea agreement and took over oversight of the case from Escalier.
Vance said the cancellation showed there was a lack of clarity about who was really in charge in the U.S. government.
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“I think this also shows that the right is not talking to the left, in other words, who is actually in charge of the United States government,” he said.
“Why did the Department of Justice make this plea deal to have the secretary of defense override it? This is something that requires a president who sits at the head of all the departments and actually coordinates some of the key decisions of the government,” he added.
“And it confirms what we already know, which is that no one is actually in charge of the US government right now. President Biden is clearly incompetent. So who is doing this? Probably Kamala Harris. It’s suggestive that they were willing to go ahead with this until the political implications were pretty clear,” he said.
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