{"id":2014598,"date":"2023-08-28T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T21:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-and-malliotakis-demand-answers-from-pentagon-on-9-11-defendants-plea-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T21:56:46","slug":"cruz-and-malliotakis-demand-answers-from-pentagon-on-9-11-defendants-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-and-malliotakis-demand-answers-from-pentagon-on-9-11-defendants-plea-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz and Malliotakis seek Pentagon&#8217;s response on 9\/11 defendants&#8217; plea deal."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcruz-and-malliotakis-demand-answers-from-pentagon-on-9-11-defendants-plea-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2014598&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis Denounce Plea Deal\u2062 for 9\/11 Architect<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Ted \u2062Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis \u2063(R-NY) have sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin expressing their strong opposition to\u200b a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-teens-charged-with-murder-of-uber-eats-driver-reportedly-getting-plea-deal\/\" title=\"D.C. teens charged with murder of Uber Eats driver reportedly getting plea deal\">potential plea deal<\/a> that would spare\u200d the suspected architect of the 9\/11 terrorist attacks \u200dand his co-defendants\u200c from the death penalty. \u200cThe lawmakers obtained exclusively by \u200cthe Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon recently \u200cinformed the families \u200bof \u200b9\/11 victims that they are considering entering \u200binto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-fbi-alert-grieving-9-11-families-architect-of-attack-4-others-may-have-death-penalties-overturned\/\" title=\"Pentagon, FBI notify 9\/11 families: Architect of attack and 4 others may have death penalties revoked.\">pre-trial agreements<\/a> with the five men, \u200bincluding\u2063 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in \u2063which they would\u200b plead guilty\u200c and accept criminal responsibility in exchange for avoiding the death\u2063 penalty.<\/p>\n<h3>Small Businesses\u200d Feel \u200dAbandoned by \u200bLawmakers Amid Spike in Retail\u200c Thefts<\/h3>\n<p>The \u200cnegotiations for the plea \u200cdeal have been\u2063 ongoing for\u200b over a \u200cyear due to concerns that the prisoners \u2062were\u200c subjected \u200bto \u200dtorture \u2064by the CIA, which could weaken the prosecution&#8217;s case against them, according to a report by the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz and\u200d Malliotakis \u2062are urging the Biden administration not to spare\u200d the defendants from \u2062the death penalty, calling the potential deal &#8220;completely unacceptable.&#8221; In\u200c their letter,\u200d they emphasize that any outcome \u200bother than the death penalty for the September 11th plotters \u200bwould be a failure of leadership\u2064 on the part of the Department\u2064 of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers \u200balso demand answers from the \u200bPentagon by mid-September regarding the \u200corigin of the plea\u200c deal. They \u2064highlight\u2064 President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign \u200dpromise \u2062to abolish the federal death penalty and draw attention to a previous\u2062 example where the Department\u2062 of Justice offered \u2062a plea deal to a suspected \u200bgunman \u2062involved in a mass shooting, bypassing \u2063local\u2063 prosecutors who sought the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>They criticize the \u200cBiden administration\u2063 for what they perceive as a politically motivated\u2063 decision that disregards the evidence and the \u200dwishes \u2063of the victims&#8217; families.\u200c The \u2062lawmakers \u200dexpress concern that partisan politics are influencing the administration&#8217;s approach to the death penalty in both civilian and military courts.<\/p>\n<p>Other\u200b lawmakers,\u200c including Rep. Mike Lawler \u2062(R-NY), have\u2062 also voiced their\u200d opposition \u2062to\u2063 the \u2064plea\u200d deal. Additionally, over \u20632,000 \u200cfamily members of \u200b9\/11\u200d victims \u2062have sent a letter to the White House urging Biden to reject any deal that would allow the prisoners to avoid the death penalty. \u200bThey argue\u200b that a plea deal would\u200d suppress crucial \u2062information about the orchestration of the attacks \u200dthat would typically come to light during a trial.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed, identified \u200cas the &#8220;principal architect&#8221; of \u2063the attacks, is currently \u200dheld at Guantanamo Bay&#8217;s detention camp along with four others. If a plea \u200cdeal is reached, it\u2064 could complicate Biden&#8217;s \u200dplan\u2064 to close Guantanamo Bay, as the law prevents the transfer of\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-and-malliotakis-demand-answers-from-pentagon-on-9-11-defendants-plea-deal\/\" title=\"Cruz and Malliotakis seek Pentagon's response on 9\/11 defendants' plea deal.\">prisoners facing life sentences<\/a> \u200cto U.S. \u200bsoil and federal custody.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts\u2064 to \u2062move\u200c the trials \u200cfrom military tribunals to civilian courts have faced resistance on Capitol Hill\u2064 due to \u2064security concerns and the logistical challenges of relocating the defendants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click\u2062 here<\/a> to read more from\u2062 the\u2064 Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) penned a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, opposing a potential plea deal that would exempt the alleged mastermind of the 9\/11 attacks and his accomplices from the death penalty. This exclusive correspondence highlights their concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2014599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}