Issue: Federal prosecutors have reached plea deals with the alleged masterminds of the September 11 attacks.
The Biden administration is currently accepting plea deals for terrorists who planned the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, including the alleged mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ( “Justice Brutality,” August 1).
This is an utter disgrace and completely unacceptable behaviour – an insult to all the families who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks.
Nearly 3,000 people died that day, and sadly, 23 years after the attacks, people are still dying from related injuries or from the cold.
I was with the New York City Fire Department at the World Trade Center that day. The last time I saw anything like it was in Vietnam. There should be no plea bargains for convicted terrorists.
Rob Johan
Queens
I still remember what New York City was like the day the attacks happened. I’ll never forget it.
I lived in Boca Raton, Florida and flew into the city for work. I lost friends and was traumatized. My ex-wife was also there to care for me that fateful day. Thousands of people died.
How can this incompetent administration allow these murderers to live out their lives in prison until old age? They have taken thousands of lives and destroyed thousands more.
Steve Landes
Boynton Beach, Florida
“It’s hard to believe that after 23 years of waiting for justice for those who lost loved ones, Mohammed will receive a plea deal to life in prison instead of the death penalty.
Our current leadership is a cesspool of weak-willed hypocrites who have ignored the nearly 3,000 innocent American lives lost and their loved ones.
Joseph Valente
Staten Island
The plea deal includes a provision that the sentence cannot be appealed, but a life sentence still leaves a small margin of room for a future president who may not be keen to see these sentences suspended until finalisation to send an elderly and infirm man home.
This has happened before. How many cop killers have had their sentences shortened by an unsympathetic liberal governor? A life sentence doesn’t necessarily end in life.
Rick Cabrera
Elmhurst
I am saddened but not shocked by the horrific decision made regarding terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
The direction that the progressive Democratic Party has taken, along with the arrogance of the “Squad,” the rise in anti-Semitic incidents, and the attitude of Congress towards Israel, is moving us away from all the values that we as Americans have stood for for so many years.
Maureen Sharkey
Brooklyn
The left’s anger is unrelenting. 23 years after 9/11, the chief prosecutor, Maj. Gen. Aaron C. Lew, signed a petition for the masterminds of the catastrophe that left thousands dead.
Why did you take the plea deal? Was it just because the interrogation was a bit rough?
They say the president had no involvement in this decision, but it is a national embarrassment.
Gary Layton
Interlaken, New Jersey
Instead of being honest about the real reasons why a plea deal was made between the government and terrorists, The Washington Post is trying to put the blame on the Biden administration (“A Final Insult to the Family,” editorial, August 1).
Perhaps you should have mentioned that all of the procedural delays were the result of the government’s failure to bring these heinous criminals to justice for nearly two decades because their confessions were tainted by illegal torture and waterboarding (dozens of times in at least one case).
Not only would their confessions have likely been rejected by a military judge, but their trial, which likely wouldn’t begin for some time, would have taken nearly two more years, not to mention appeals.
Louis J. Maione
Manhattan
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