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 Republicans on the Armed Services and Oversight committees separately launched investigations into the circumstances of the plea agreement.
“I appreciate that Secretary Austin listened to my concerns and reversed this horrible decision,” Rogers told Fox News Digital on Saturday. “However, this plea deal should never have occurred. I still expect the Secretary to provide HASC with answers on how this happened.”
The chairman wrote to Austin on Thursday demanding documents related to the plea deal, including “all documents and communications containing terms, conditions, agreements, side-deals, or any mutually developed, related, conditional, or linked agreements with any party relating to terms and conditions of the plea agreements.”
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Representative Mike Rogers, a Republican from Alabama and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, speaks during a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. The White House national security advisor spoke with China’s top diplomat on Friday, people familiar with the matter said, as the two sides look to ease tensions that have continued to build in recent months. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The GOP committee chairman also asked for records of communications spanning the Biden administration regarding the plea deal, which he called…
