Pentagon Appeals Panel Rules 9/11 Plotters' Plea Deals Can Go Forward

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : A Pentagon appeals panel has upheld a military court judge's decision that the plea deals reached with the three 9/11 plotters being held at Guantanamo prison last August were valid and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin did not have the authority to rescind the deals with the 9/11 mastermind of the attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two other terrorists signed off on by prosecutors without Austin's knowledge.
49% : Last August, Susan Escallier, the convening authority for military commissions, oversaw the negotiations for plea deals involving the 9/11 terrorists.
46% : "We agree with the military judge that the secretary did not have authority to revoke respondents' existing PTAs because the respondents had started performance of the PTAs," the three-judge panel wrote in a 21-page decision released Monday.

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