The Biden administration is asking for a federal appeals court to temporarily block a plea deal agreement with three detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The ruling reinstates plea agreements under which the three men would admit guilt in connection with the September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda attacks.
The U.S. has transferred 11 Guantanamo detainee to Oman, leaving 15 at Cuba facility in the largest detainee transfer to take place during the Biden administration.
The Biden administration was handed a big defeat after a military court ruled against plans to throw out plea deals for the September 11, 2001 terrorist 'masterminds.' Now, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ...
The U.S. government earlier this year entered into the plea agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other 9/11 suspects, sparing them the death penalty.
Eleven Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Oman, marking yet another detainee transfer from the military prison in the final days of the Biden administration.
The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants in the Sept. attacks. It comes days before the accused 9/11 mastermind's scheduled guilty plea in an agreement that would spare him the death penalty.
The deal would allow Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along with three other co-defendants, to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.
President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing to resolve as many of the cases as possible, on its terms, before Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20.
In the Biden administration’s latest filing, Brian Fletcher, the Justice Department’s principal deputy solicitor general, argued that the case involving the three 9/11 plotters is of “ unique