Team Biden is botching the case vs. 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed & Co.

Seeing that 9/11 terrorists salary for their crimes in afloat should beryllium a apical national priority.

Yet a military judge conscionable ruled that since-rescinded pleas woody sparing nan lives of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 2 accomplices must spell backmost successful effect.

Huh?

If that ruling stands, nan trio won’t person to look nan decease punishment — depriving 9/11’s victims, their loved ones and nan federation itself of nan justness they’re owed.

Without a doubt, Team Biden deserves nan blasted for this nightmare: A elder Pentagon charismatic tapped by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signed disconnected connected nan deals successful July, allowing KSM & Co. to plead blameworthy successful speech for life imprisonment.

Yet if ever a lawsuit warranted decease sentences, 9/11 is it.

Anything short of that dishonors nan victims and compounds their and their families’ pain.

Indeed, nan fury that erupted aft news of nan deals collapsed led Austin to quickly override his appointee and rescind them, announcing that he’d been unaware of nan deals earlier they were inked,.

Great.

But now nan judge, Col. Matthew McCall, says Austin acted excessively precocious and lacked nan authority to backmost out.

Did it really return him three months to fig that out, aliases was he waiting until aft Election Day?

This reeks of politics, not justice: game-playing by McCall if not personification higher up nan concatenation of bid who (rightly) feared nan backlash would wounded Kamala Harris’ bid for nan White House.

Whatever: It’s President Biden’s duty, and Austin’s, to entreaty McCall’s ruling — and they, aliases President Trump aft Jan. 20, request to straighten retired nan full subject tribunal system, which has been dithering amid claims that nan lawsuit is difficult to try, aliases method ineligible issues confounded a due proceedings and sentencing.

America has been waiting 23 years to spot justness carried retired for what was nan worst onslaught connected US ungraded since Pearl Harbor: KSM and nan others should’ve been dispensed pinch long ago.

It’s clip for our leaders to insist that justness prevail.

If Americans can’t get it successful a lawsuit for illustration this, really tin they clasp immoderate spot successful nan strategy astatine all?