Coming up on the 23rd anniversary of the awful 9/11 airliner attacks that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, too many Americans do not realize that the top three organizers still sit safely in heavily-guarded cells at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility.
If justice delayed is really justice denied, this is a pretty good example for the survivors and relatives of the dead. And also for a fair number of the rest of us.
Through the four presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, now Joe Biden, and apparently into the next administration To Be Determined, the cases have wallowed in a morass of legal concerns, technicalities, complexities, confusion, false starts, probably some human procrastination on both sides, and successive teams of both prosecutors and defense attorneys.
All to no avail so far.
Last month, the general in charge of handling the situation announced that both defense lawyers and prosecutors had reached a plea agreement. The trio of terrorists would plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence that does not include the threat of a death penalty.
To say that giving up the possibility of execution of these mass murderers did not sit well is an understatement.
In an effort to dampen the emotional blow-back in a presidential election year, late last week Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced that he had taken over jurisdiction of the cases. That he was vacating the plea deal and restoring the possibility of executions.
Our colleague, Becca Lower, had that breaking story here.
This does nothing to move justice along, which is what we discuss in this week's audio commentary.
Perhaps you too have noticed an abundance of political news these days. LOL. For a little change of pace, we posted the other day another in the ongoing series of my personal Memories.
This memory was a particular favorite of mine and prompted by all the recent attention on TV to the Olympics in Paris. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did living it.
RedState's Nick Arama posted an interesting piece explaining why the presumed favorite choice of Harris to join her ticket as the VP nominee lost out.
And then there's this one that intrigued me. Ward Clark asked the question, Is the Harris-Walz teaming for November really just a throwaway ticket?
Meaning, after the preemptive embarrassing coup to oust Joe Biden, the elected choice of 14 million Democrat primary voters, is that party secretly going through the expensive motions of competing but actually rather resigned to a loss thanks to its own machinations and willful blindness to the incumbent's awful record in so many areas and to his obvious mounting disabilities?
No one will ever actually admit to that, of course, because that would mean conceding to the evil Orange Man. But it's a tasty topic to chew on.
