Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other men held at Guantánamo accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks. Under the deal, the three prisoners had agreed to plead guilty and be sentenced to life in prison. But on Friday, Austin rescinded the deal in a move that will put the death penalty back on the table for the three men. We will have more on this story later in the program.

In an order released on Friday night, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin canceled the Biden-Harris administration’s shameful plea deals with 9/11 terrorist masterminds that would have spared them the death penalty. Secretary Austin, a former Army general before becoming secretary, reserved the power to reach any such deals to himself.

FIRST ON FOX: House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., told Fox News Digital his committee will continue to probe a scrapped plea deal with the alleged terrorists behind the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday stunningly revoked a controversial plea deal that would have reportedly taken the death penalty off the table for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, who are awaiting trial in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The announcement came after House...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases. The move comes two days after the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, announced that the official appointed to oversee the war court, retired Brig. Gen. Susan Escallier, had approved plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two accused accomplices, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, in the attacks. Letters sent to families of the nearly 3,000...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin late Friday revoked a controversial plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attack, and two of his accomplices: Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi. In exchange for guilty pleas to lesser charges, the trio would have been sentenced to life in prison rather than face the death penalty. Mr. Austin’s decision to pull rank on retired Brig. Gen. Susan K. Escallier — the ex-Army lawyer he appointed to oversee the remaining 9/11 cases in Guantanamo...

The families of 9/11 victims and congressional lawmakers praised Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for doing “the right thing” on Friday by revoking plea deals that would’ve spared three accused plotters of the terrorist attacks the death penalty. They now want justice and for a trial date to be set “immediately.” “Thank God!” Kathy Vigiano, the widow of NYPD Detective Joseph Vigiano, who was among the nearly 3,000 people killed on Sept. 11, 2001, told The Post when she learned of the scrapped plea deals for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — the...

Austin said the decision-making authority for this case should rest with him. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked a plea deal made earlier this week that would have spared the accused mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and his two alleged accomplices the death penalty. In a memorandum addressed to Susan Escallier, the convening authority for military commissions, Austin withdrew her authority to enter into pre-trial agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of his alleged accomplices. “I have determined that, in light of the significance of the decision to enter...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday withdrew the plea deal for the three men accused of planning the 9/11 attacks. Austin announced the move in a letter addressed to Susan Escallier, the convening authority for military commissions, who had worked to negotiate the deal. "Effective immediately, I hereby withdraw your authority in the above-referenced case to enter into a pre-trial agreement and reserve such authority to myself," Austin said in the letter. Officials said on Wednesday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash and Mustafa...

The Biden Administration made a significant U-turn in the plea deal for the accused 9/11 terrorists on Friday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked a proposed plea deal for the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks that triggered nationwide outrage. Austin also relieved Brigadier General Susan K Escallier, the Biden official who was overseeing the case. Just two days earlier, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi agreed to plead guilty to a slew of charges in exchange for removing the death...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a pre-trial agreement reached with men accused plotting the 11 September terror attacks. In a memo on Friday, Mr Austin also said he was revoking the authority of the officer overseeing the court who signed the agreement on Wednesday. The move comes after the deal, which would have spared the alleged attackers the death penalty, was criticised by some families of victims. The memo named five defendants including the alleged ringleader of the plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The original deal, struck on July...