President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, dramatically reversed course on a plea deal the Biden-Harris administration made with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

“I have determined that, in light of the significance of the decision to enter into pre-trial
agreements with the accused in the above-referenced case, responsibility for such a decision should rest with me as the superior convening authority under the Military Commissions Act of 2009,” said U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in a memo.

The original decision to offer the plea deal was, allegedly, made by an underling without approval from Austin, Biden, or Harris.

“Effective immediately, in the exercise of my authority, I hereby withdraw from the three
pre-trial agreements,” Austin added.

The original plea deal, which was announced Wednesday, drew criticism from members of the public and politicians for being too lenient and sparing terrorists involved in the 9/11 attacks.

“I am very disappointed. We waited patiently for a long time. I wanted the death penalty — the government has failed us,” one victim told the New York Post.

On Friday, just two days after the wildly unpopular deal was announced, Austin formally withdrew from it.

The original deal, which would have required the terrorists to plead guilty to the deaths of 2,976 people killed by their attack, was secured by retired Brig. Gen. Susan K. Escallier, who oversaw court cases at Guantánamo Bay.

Seemingly in direct response to the plea deal, Austin officially relieved Escallier of her duties and took them over himself.

Austin withdrew the deal as the 2024 election approaches, and as Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign attempts to draw more right-leaning voters away from former President Donald Trump, despite her radically far-left record.

The far-left activist group American Civil Liberties Union announced shortly after Austin’s decision that it would sue the federal government in order to protect the originally plea deal and save the 9-11 mass murderer from the death penalty.