U.S. Department of Justice plans to offer plea agreements for 9/11 plotters, including its mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is drawing loud claims of cover-up from 9/11 families.
Brett Eagleson, a representative of the families and president of 9/11 Justice, appeared on “Greg Kelly Reports” Thursday slamming the Department of Justice for reportedly planning to offer plea deals to Mohammed and other plotters.
According to reports, the plea deals would allow Mohammed and others to plead guilty and, in exchange, receive life sentences instead of the death penalty. By accepting the plea agreements, the 9/11 plotters would also not have trials.
Eagleson, whose father was killed while working in the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, told Newsmax that the death penalty is a “distraction” from the real issue.
“This has absolutely nothing to do with life in prison versus the death penalty,” Eagleson explained.
“Our U.S. government does not want KSM to stand trial,” Eagleson said, referring to Mohammed by his initials. “They do not want to hear what he has to say.
“The feckless losers at the DOJ and the FBI do not want KSM talking, so they are rushing this deal so they could have could have KSM put in jail for life without a fair trial."
Eagleson said the plea agreements are a “cover-up by the United States government for the Saudi role in 9/11 and the United States' intelligence failures."
He suggested that if Mohammed were to go to trial “he will spill the beans on everything he knows about what the U.S. government knew about what Saudi Arabia did, and they do not want him talking."
Eagleson claimed the Biden administration is acting in a way that is "unconscionable" by considering the plea agreements, and in other actions that have been taken.
"President [Joe] Biden declassified documents which show without a doubt the Saudi government was involved in 9/11, and he's done nothing with it," Eagleson said.
The families of the 9/11 victims have waited 22 years for a trial, Eagleson told Kelly.
"We deserve to know what he has to say," said Eagleson. "This is America. America is founded upon the principles of justice. If we do not get a trial, justice in America is dead."
“The real story, which I hope people recognize, is they do not want to trial. They want to continue the decades long cover-up effort to keep him quiet."
Eagleson said the U.S. government wants to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where Mohammed and other 9/11 prisoners have been held for years.
"What they want to do is take 9/11, put it in a box, wrap a bow around it, put it on a shelf, and never have to deal with us or it again, and they're doing that by closing down Guantanamo," said Eagleson.
"They're repatriating some of these people in Guantanamo back to Saudi Arabia,” he added.
"They're flying them out under the cover of darkness without the [9/11] families, the attorneys ever even having a chance to talk to them or depose them."
The flights are being kept secret with the excuse that it poses "operational risks" to release details, but Eagleson said the detainees are being granted special immunity because "they're old and their family misses them."
"Well, I miss my dad," Eagleson said. "I don't have that opportunity. I never got a chance to watch him grow old."
Eagleson warns that if the Justice Department does not do a trial of the 9/11 plotters, the family members of those killed in the 2001 attacks will "be in an uprising.”
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