Judge Throws Out 9/11 Mastermind Confession Because He Wasn’t About ‘Right To Be Silent’

Peloni:  What could be more reasonable than for the Islamist aligned Left to purposefully undermine the most critical element of evidence against the greatest terror attack in history on the American people.  It is hard to see a more obvious and troubling example of the coalition between the Left and the Islamists than the possible freeing of the mastermind of 9-11.

FBI agents also didn’t tell the Al Qaeda leader he could call a lawyer.

by Daniel Greenfield | Aug 28, 2026

Khalid Shaikh Mohamed. By Taget af amerikanske styrker, da KSM blev pågrebet - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:090909-Mohammed1-vmed-9a.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=142974346Khalid Shaikh Mohamed. By Taget af amerikanske styrker, da KSM blev pågrebet – Wikimedia, Public Domain, Link

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.

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  6. My initial response is to shoot this judge. However, he did get this far so he may actually be doing good. On the other hand, we’ve seen this kind of verdict being handed down all over the USA, so the chances are good that he was installed for purposes such as this. He needs to be investgated along with his friends, maybe analyzed, to find out if he should be disbarred due to operational blindness or perhaps getting payed for it.