Well, I guess THIS decision was polling REALLY bad.
Yeah, I don't know if it was Obama's shadow, Biden's doppelgänger, Kamala's campaign manager, or if Lloyd Austin himself woke up from his stupor, but the decision to give a plea deal to 3 of the masterminds behind 9/11 has been revoked, officially.
'Today, Secretary Austin signed a memo reserving for himself the specific authority to enter into pre-trial agreements with the accused in the 9/11 military commission cases,' the Defense Department said in a press release. 'In addition, as the superior convening authority, the Secretary has also withdrawn from the pre-trial agreements that were signed in those cases.'
Austin announced the move in a memo addressed to Susan Escallier, the convening authority for military commissions, who had worked to negotiate the deal.
'Effective immediately, I hereby withdraw your authority in the above-referenced case to enter into a pre-trial agreement and reserve such authority to myself,' Austin said in the letter, which removes Escallier from the case.
Austin not only revoked the plea deal, he removed the woman who gave the plea deal from the case.
Now, how Susan Escallier can keep her job after this is a mystery. But a removal from the case is a good first step.
Conservatives pushed back hard enough to swing the opinion of a higher-up in the Biden Administration.
There's no doubt, regardless of motivation, that this was the right move by Austin.
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