"Doc, why not just put the amount in the headline?" you ask.

Because I have to mentally prepare you for this.

(Also we need page views to remain solvent.)

But mostly I have to mentally prepare you for this.

The scumbag in the picture above is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks. We captured him in 2003. His death penalty trial was originally set for January 11, 2021. Why on earth does it take 18 years to get this bossman jihadi to trial? Beats me. But his 2021 trial got delayed because of CoRoNaViRuS. He still hasn't gone on trial. For goodness sake.

The terrorist has been in Gitmo this whole time. And it's really expensive to house terrorists at Gitmo.

OK now I'm going to tell you how much American taxpayer money has gone to keeping this mass murderer alive and detained:

$162 MILLION.

One hundred and sixty-two million taxpayer dollars. JUST FOR HIM. That's not like, for every Gitmo prisoner. No, just Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. $162,000,000.

I cannot fathom a single justifiable explanation for this. The man is responsible for 9/11, among other large-scale terror attacks. HE CONFESSED IT! His trial and execution should have been immediate.

Instead, all these years later we've spent 9 figures keeping him alive. What an outrage.