Lloyd Austin giveth, Lloyd Austin taketh away, Lloyd Austin … forced to giveth back? On the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the New York Times offers some bad news on the lawfare front against the mass murderers that plotted and funded the worst terror attack on the US.
Five weeks ago, Austin’s commanding officer in charge of military courts got relieved after approving a plea deal with the trio, including mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Austin then ordered the plea deals revoked, sending the cases back to the Guantanamo Bay courts created in a series of legal spasms during the Bush administration to deal with these defendants. Some wondered at the time whether Austin had the authority to undo a deal that the court had already accepted.
As it turns out, the court wonders that, too:
Mr. Austin declared that his only motivation was to make sure there would eventually be…
