WHAT are they not telling us about the 9/11 mastermind plea deal?



September 11, 2001, saw the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United States, killing nearly 3,000 American citizens.

And yet, the masterminds behind the onslaught — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two of his accomplices — have accepted plea deals.

What Are They NOT Telling Us About the 9/11 Mastermind Plea Deal?youtu.be

“What they've done is in exchange for the removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment,” says Glenn Beck, who can’t believe these three men “haven’t even been tried yet.”

According to the report, “These three accused have agreed to plead guilty to all of the charged defenses, including the murder of 2,976 people listed in the charge sheet.”

“Now if there is anyone that deserves execution, I think it's somebody who killed 3,000 people” and “perpetrated the largest terrorist attack the world had seen,” says Glenn.

Stu Burguiere points out that the lack of a trial denies the families of the victims a critical component of their “closure process.”

“He just gets to say ‘I’m guilty’ and it’s over,” he says.

“What would be another reason not to have a trial?” asks Glenn.

“Some might think that if an entire trial were to go on, we might learn some things about how the government handled this situation, who they were dealing with, what arrangements were made for government officials from other countries. There's maybe something they might not want us to know about,” says Stu.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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WSJ marks grim 1-year anniversary of reporter's wrongful detention in Russia



The Wall Street Journal marked the grim one-year anniversary of reporter Evan Gershkovich's detention in Russia by leaving a large blank space on "the front page of a special section wrapping" Friday's paper. "HIS STORY SHOULD BE HERE," text blared above the gaping visual void.

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The Journal's Eliot Brown, who calls Gershkovich a friend, noted that Russian authorities detained Gershkovich on March 29, 2023. The 32-year-old imprisoned journalist remains in his cell for 23 hours per day, Brown wrote, adding, "He meets with his Russian lawyers weekly, and periodically goes to court where a judge extends his pretrial detention."

"It's a very small, very isolated place with a small window and very little time outside," Gershkovich's father, Mikhail Gershkovich, said of his son's cell, the New York Times reported. "We know it takes a lot of courage and effort and strength to stay put together, to exercise, to meditate, to read books, to write letters, to encourage us to stay strong and hope for the best."

The father and son play chess through the mail.

"Every day is very hard — every day we feel that he is not here," Gershkovich's mother Ella Milman said, according to the Times.

President Joe Biden marked the "painful anniversary" in a statement on Friday. "To Evan, to Paul Whelan, and to all Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad: We are with you. And we will never stop working to bring you home," Biden said in the statement.

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker has noted that "Evan stands accused of espionage, which Evan, the U.S. government and we vehemently deny."

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'Were you ever worried?' Glenn Beck asks Tucker Carlson about interviewing Russia's Vladimir Putin



Tucker Carlson told BlazeTV host Glenn Beck that he did not feel intimidated while interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin.

While conducting the interview with Putin earlier this month, Carlson brought up Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen who has been imprisoned in Russia since last year, asking Putin point-blank if he would "be willing to release him to us and we'll bring him back" to America. And even after posing that question, Carlson pressed forward on the topic of Gershkovich.

Beck asked Carlson, "Did it ever cross your mind that, 'I'm not in my home country. I'm saying this to a very powerful man who does do what he wants'? Were you ever worried?"

"No," Carlson answered. "I wasn't worried for a single second I was there. I wasn't worried going over there, not because I trust the Russian government, I don't, but because my kids are grown, and like, I don't really care at this point," Carlson explained. "I feel protected. I say my prayers," he noted.

"I wasn't intimidated at all. I was annoyed a couple of times," he said, noting that he thought Putin was "interesting." He also said the Russian figure was "hostile" at times.

Carlson said that he learned that Putin is "very wounded by what he sees as the rejection of the West," and that he thinks that rejection makes Putin "angry."

"Russia moved into Eastern Ukraine because the Biden administration pushed them to," Carlson told Beck. "There's a war in Ukraine because the Biden administration wanted a war in Ukraine," he said.

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McConnell and Schumer Call For Release Of WSJ Reporter Detained In Russia

'Russia has a long and disturbing history of unjustly detaining U.S. citizens'