“I’m So Sad for Our Country”: 9/11 Victim’s Sister Responds to Pentagon Chief Revoking Plea Deal

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We get an update on the case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi, three of the men alleged to have planned the 9/11 attacks on the United States. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin surprised observers Friday by revoking a plea deal that would have commuted the three men’s sentences to life. Our first guest, Shayana Kadidal, the managing attorney of the Guantánamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, questions the legality of Austin’s override of the prosecutor-supported deal. The revocation means the three men could once again face the death penalty for their roles. We also speak to Terry Rockefeller, a member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Rockefeller, who supports the plea deal, lost her sister Laura in the attacks on the World Trade Center. She expresses frustration over continued delays to the prosecution. “I’m so sad for our country that we haven’t been able to grapple with the mistakes that were made in handling this case,” she says. “Had family members actually gotten all the opportunities that the plea agreement promised us, many, many of them would have been satisfied.”

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