9/11 terrorists keep dodging justice as lefty allies wage legal jihad

A quarter-century after 9/11, the attack’s evil mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, still hasn’t been tried and sentenced to death — because America’s own justice system has been turned against us. Blame the American Civil Liberties Union, in large part, for this travesty.The ACLU intervened at the start, insisting that the two military lawyers assigned to defend Mohammed and his co-defendants “might not have death penalty experience” and were unprepared to battle “the full force of the US government.”  What a pity.The ACLU sent in its own team of expert capital defense lawyers, at a cost of millions of dollars. Ever since, this team has been waging legal jihad — and it’s still getting away with it. The terrorists’ lawyers have strung out the military court proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, objecting that the defendants weren’t read their rights and were wrongly subjected to CIA waterboarding and other torture.The real torture victims are the 9/11 families, still waiting for justice and closure.From the start, the ACLU insisted that foreign terrorists deserve the same due-process rights and presumption of innocence as any American.Wrong: These animals don’t deserve the protections of our Constitution.Nor do they deserve the rights of legitimate soldiers under the Geneva Convention; Mohammed and his underlings rejected the rules of war to massacre civilians without warning.But their lawyers — including Gary Sowards, who once defended Unabomber Ted Kaczynski — have repeatedly run circles around military prosecutors with endless pretrial motions and multiple attempts to negotiate a plea deal that takes a death sentence off the table.Now, 25 years after the attack, justice is further out of reach than ever.The latest blow came last Friday, when Lt.

Col.Michael Schrama, the fifth military judge to preside in the case, issued a lopsided ruling that gives the terrorists’ lawyers everything they want. Two days after setting a Jun...