FBI agents also didn’t tell the Al Qaeda leader he could call a lawyer.
Using the Article III system to try Al Qaeda terrorists was a reasonable solution, the trouble is that military tribunal personnel in this century look nothing like the guys who took a smoke break and sentenced Nazi saboteurs to death during WWII. Their ideal is A Few Good Men, they’re liberals if not outright leftists, and they’re far more likely to be on the side of the terrorists than to be on our side.
The few Islamic terrorists whom Obama and Biden didn’t free from Gitmo were protected by the military judicial system which dragged out the whole thing endlessly, tried to cut a sweetheart deal and now has managed to throw out the confession by the mastermind of 9/11.
We knew what we were getting when Michael Schrama showed up.
Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama was a 19-year-old undergrad at Georgetown University when hijacked plane American Airlines 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, about four miles from campus. That’s a day that the military judge, now in his mid-40s, recalled as “surreal” during his brief voir dire on Monday in a Guantanamo Bay courtroom. Schrama also remembered feeling bad for the victims but said he was “not personally impacted” by the attacks.
“There is nothing about that day that I believe would affect my ability to be impartial in this case,” Schrama, who joined the JAG Corps in 2009, said.
No normal American can be impartial in that regard. Schrama presumably genuinely doesn’t care about 9/11. I suspect he’s quite against Gitmo however and it didn’t take him long to show it.
In a major blow to the U.S. case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, a military judge ruled on Friday that the prisoner’s confessions to F.B.I. agents were not voluntary and cannot be used against him at trial.
Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, went further, concluding that Mr. Mohammed’s subsequent interrogations in 2007 at Guantánamo were also inadmissible.
“The prosecution has failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that Mr. Mohammad’s statements to the F.B.I. were voluntarily given,” Colonel Schrama wrote in the conclusion of his 45-page ruling, which was not immediately released to the public but whose unclassified contents were confirmed by several lawyers who had seen it.
He also found that F.B.I. agents intentionally failed to explicitly tell Mr. Mohammed that he had a right to be silent and to consult a lawyer, and that what he told them could be used against him at a trial.
This isn’t a joke. It’s the enemy within. This entire system needs to be purged every bit as badly as USAID.
Colonel Schrama has yet to rule on the confessions of two other defendants in the Sept. 11 case, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi. An earlier judge, Col. Matthew McCall, threw out the confessions of Mr. Mohammed’s nephew, Ammar al-Baluchi, who is accused of helping some of the 19 hijackers with finances and travel arrangements.
A different judge, Col. Lanny Acosta, suppressed the confession of the defendant in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, in an explicit finding that he had been tortured by the C.I.A. His death-penalty trial in the 2000 attack, which killed 17 U.S. sailors, is scheduled to start in October.
We know exactly what Schrama is going to do. We know what all of these cretins will do. And we know exactly what Schrama would be doing if the man in front of him wasn’t an Islamic terrorist but a military officer at the J6 riots.
Here’s Schrama’s article on the subject of extremism in the military. There’s no mention of leftists or Islamic terrorists, but you can guess all the talking points that Michael Schrama gets in there. (Courtesy of Benjamin Weingarten.)
As an active-duty Air Force military judge, I have seen firsthand a rising population of military members engaging in extremist activities. In 2021, 17.6 percent of domestic terrorism plots and attacks were committed by active-duty or reserve personnel. In January 2021, the United States saw an attack on federal property when an organized group of extremists stormed the United States Capitol. Approximately 12 percent of those individuals charged in federal court for their role in the activities had some form of military experience, including members currently on active duty. There is more than ample evidence that military members are a ripe population for extremist recruitment and that the rise of domestic extremism in the military ranks is a threat to national security.
Schrama and his ilk are the real threat to national security.
somehistory says
By now, this ghoul should have fed the worms and turned to dust.
Cynthia says
He is the face of pure evil. Execution is too good for him. He should be set on fire and pushed from a skyscraper like his victims.
Walter Sieruk says
Oh no ! KSM might “get off hook” because it had been claimed that he wasn’t informed about hod “Right to remain silent.” Not only is this absurd ,it’s also a blatant example of the truth of the statement that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.” Furthermore , KSM isn’t an American citizen, but scheming Muslim terror/mass murderer schemer . That Muslim monster such not even have such a right.
This judge further shows the insidious damaging influence of the Red/Green alliance can do when such leftist man who was appointed into such a powerful position as being a judge. For a rather long time ,now the US law system has been a politically correct farce.
One of the most important things that must not be overlooked or forgotten, The rights of the victims of all the people murdered on September 11, 2001 and that rights of their surviving family members of the people viciously killed on 9/11. to see justice come down hard on that villain, KSM.
Actually, that evil scheming mastermind .KSM, should really have no rights given to him at all.
Walter Sieruk says
KSM sure knew how to inspire those 19 Islamic terrorists to catty out their Islamic sucide /homicide attacks on September 11,2001 but he didn’t , as in would not, take the place on the original 20 jihad terrorist planed members when one of the could not make it to that death inflection jihadists crew. That alone reveals something about the character of KSM..
Furthermore, some patriotic Americans have and still refer to those 19 jihadists of al Qaeda ‘as “cowards” .To be accurate that isn’t really fitting word to describe them . An appropriate description of those 19 jihadists that created all the death and destruction is that on 9/11 would be “Those 19 jihadists were very dangerous deluded horrendously evil murderous Muslim monsters.”
tgusa says
So nearly three decades later those with law degrees have decided that the Kuwaiti-born Pakistani militant has the same rights as American citizens. If the Republic begins to crumble as a result of those with law degrees they will be burning and deleting any evidence that they had a hand in it. You know, just like an enemy would do as US troops are closing in.
He is a foreign terrorist and mass murderer not a US citizen but he has friends among the law degree cabal.
tgusa says
‘Schrama also remembered feeling bad for the victims but said he was “not personally impacted” by the attacks.”
The a-hole is not even an American but there he is playing the part of an officer in the US Army. What a disgrace.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I increasingly think that our policy at the time should have been “take no prisoners” and just killed every one of them like we did Mohammed Atef and ultimately did to Osama and Zawahiri – KSM, Ramzi bin al Shib, Abu Zubaida…. That way, we wouldn’t have wasted decades and millions, if not billions, litigating this in courts
Hopefully we do that in future wars. It’s good that the Israelis eliminated Khamenei, and the same thing should happen to remaining leaders of the islamic regime – Pezeshkian, Ghalibaf, Vahidi, Ejai, Araghchi, Razei,…. No taking them captive, extracting information or giving them fair trials
Just. Take. No. Prisoners!
tgusa says
“No taking them captive, extracting information or giving them fair trials”
The Wests standard is that of the Nuremberg trials. The nazis were around for about 12 years. The islamists have been around for more than 12 centuries. Extracting information, OK,start with reading their tell all book. They want to kill us and destroy our civilization (hello) but by all means we should waste decades and billions litigating it. Its like the Mickey Mouse Club vs the Mafia. Mickey stands no chance.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
For Nuremberg, did the West give Nazis any immunity in lieu of exposing other people who did worse things? From what I understand, all they got was opportunities to prove their innocence, but once they failed that, the book was thrown at them
tgusa says
Just as the Sergeant is the backbone of the enlisted ranks the Colonel is supposed to be the backbone of the officer ranks. I guess we are running short of backbones among the officer ranks.
Westman says
It seems everything organic, when excessively aged, becomes rotten. Both criminals and the public are denied justice when a generation passes between apprehending a murderer and his trial.
The first mistake was water-boarding, the second was extending US citizen rights to a foreigner-terrorist, and the third was waiting too long for a trial.
Anyone over 15 at the time, “not affected”, by 9/11 is an emotional zombie/autistic and not much of a patriot. With military judges like Col. Schrama we must be in a military state where, “Never again!”, will be, “Yes, again!”.
RightStuff1944 says
This cretin should have been shot in the head decades ago. Meanwhile we have fed him three squares a day, given him medical treatment and clothed him.
jimjames says
For me this judge is obviously a marxist! Why to make this claim?! Because this is the Leninist doctrine of “ultra-democracy” in application. This is a devolutionists Islamic radical who has no US citizenship, who does not recognize the US Constitution and is clearly a murderer! The judge needs to be impeached and put on trial for this mis-application of US law. Mark him a traitor in robes and his sentencing is obvious!
KK says
Throw the judge into gizmo with them. Terrorists don’t have constitutional rights.
gravenimage says
Judge Throws Out 9/11 Mastermind Confession Because He Wasn’t Told About ‘Right to Remain Silent’
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Good grief…
Lisa Tea says
I wonder if the prosecutors can appeal this decision to the Supreme Court? Those rights are for U.S. citizens, not foreign jihadists. At any rate, mirandize the heck out of them from now on.
I’m surprised this man hadn’t already been tried and convicted. His crimes took place 25 years ago.
One thing I do like to think about, the look on the faces of these jihadists when they meet their maker and discover his name isn’t Allah.