In news that is sure to stir controversy, the plea deals the Biden administration worked out with 9/11 masterminds Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others are back in effect. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who was not made aware of the plea deals when they were put into effect, tried to step in and stop them. Unfortunately, a military appeals court ruled he overstepped his bounds in doing so. 

A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks, a U.S. official said.

The decision puts back on track the agreements that would have the three men plead guilty to one of the deadliest attacks on the United States in exchange for being spared the possibility of the death penalty. The attacks by al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, and helped spur U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in what the George W. Bush administration called its war on terror.

It has never been made clear why terrorists who killed almost 3,000 people on September 11th, 2001 needed to be given plea deals. The White House tried to wash its hands of the move as if the most notorious living terrorists in American history could be given lenient terms without direct approval from the president. If that was the arrangement, and no one should believe it was, then it's simply more evidence of how incompetent and inexcusably absent of a president Joe Biden was and remains.

Survivors of those killed on 9/11 sounded off in the wake of the plea deals, decrying them as a "deal with the devil."

SEE: 9/11 Survivors and Families on Biden Admin Pact With Terrorists

Some speculation rested on the idea that this move was meant to uphold social justice ideals in opposition to the death penalty. That excuse was recently blown up, though, when Biden commuted the sentences of every single person on death row except those he deemed terrorists, including the Boston Bomber. 

As to what happens next, Austin has the ability to appeal, and if this issue is held open long enough, there may be a path for the Trump administration to undo the plea deals. 

Of note — the Sec. of Defense can change the military court rules. The change might require the President to sign off, but it can be done.

If the Biden administration does not implement the changes, then Trump’s incoming Sec. of Defense better be ready to act quickly on this.…

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) December 31, 2024

That plan may or may not be workable depending on the differences in military court procedures, but it should certainly be tried. 

What Joe Biden is doing is morally reprehensible. Having become arguably the worst president in American history (only competing with Jimmy Carter), he is now burning everything down on his way out the door. This guy's legacy on "justice" is now pardoning his criminal son, commuting the sentences of brutal murderers, and giving plea deals to the 9/11 masterminds. In short, there is no legacy left, and the Democratic Party should be made to own every bit of this for years to come.