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WASHINGTON—A military judge has set a January 2021 trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo detainees accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
The men facing a possible death penalty were captured in 2002 and 2003, but efforts to prosecute them have been impaired over disputed policies the George W. Bush administration pursued after the terrorist attacks. Those include the alleged torture of the prisoners in secret Central Intelligence Agency facilities overseas before their transfer to Guantanamo in 2006, and the creation of a new military commission apparatus that could impose death sentences without affording defendants the rights provided in courts-martial or federal court.
Both policies have produced repeated legal setbacks; years of pretrial litigation have been dominated by the government’s effort to prevent the defense from introducing evidence of the prisoners’ treatment in CIA custody, while the commission program itself has had to work through myriad procedural and legal issues that long have been resolved in the existing civilian and military court systems.
Military Judge Sets January 2021 Trial Date for Accused 9/11 Conspirators
It's 2019, if we could just speed this up it would be great.
The men facing a possible death penalty were captured in 2002 and 2003, but efforts to prosecute them have been impaired over disputed policies the George W. Bush administration pursued after the terrorist attacks. Those include the alleged torture of the prisoners in secret Central Intelligence Agency facilities overseas before their transfer to Guantanamo in 2006, and the creation of a new military commission apparatus that could impose death sentences without affording defendants the rights provided in courts-martial or federal court.
Both policies have produced repeated legal setbacks; years of pretrial litigation have been dominated by the government’s effort to prevent the defense from introducing evidence of the prisoners’ treatment in CIA custody, while the commission program itself has had to work through myriad procedural and legal issues that long have been resolved in the existing civilian and military court systems.
Military Judge Sets January 2021 Trial Date for Accused 9/11 Conspirators
It's 2019, if we could just speed this up it would be great.
