Richard Blumenthal Calls On The Biden Admin To Explain Plea Deal With Alleged 9/11 Mastermind

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) spoke with reporters on Thursday to discuss the plea deal for 9/11 defendants including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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00:00A lot of the 9-11 families are concerned about this plea deal that the administration reached

00:05with KSM.

00:08Are you concerned about this plea deal?

00:09I am very concerned about this plea deal and I think we ought to scrutinize it very carefully.

00:17I think there are interests here that may not have been represented as fairly and aggressively

00:22as they should have been.

00:24I champion the 9-11 families in their legal action against Saudi Arabia.

00:30There is so much here that we don't know and we have an obligation to tell the American

00:35people about the potential complicity, not only of these defendants, but of Saudi Arabia

00:41and other countries.

00:42Have the administration given you any explanation to this yet?

00:46No explanation whatsoever.

00:49They owe me and Congress an explanation, but more importantly they owe the 9-11 families

00:54and the American people.

00:56When you say scrutinize it, what exactly do you think you could find?

01:01We can't know what we would find until we do the scrutiny, but basically it's whether

01:08the interests of justice and particularly the 9-11 families were represented fairly

01:14and aggressively in seeking results here that are important to our credibility around

01:21the world.

01:22When we fight terrorists and we have them in custody, we need to hold them accountable

01:28with the kinds of penalties that really do justice to the victims.

Richard Blumenthal Calls On The Biden Admin To Explain Plea Deal With Alleged 9/11 Mastermind

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