Weeks before the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a military judge excluded accused mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s statements to FBI agents, finding that prosecutors had failed to establish they were voluntary following his torture in CIA custody. The ruling in Mohammed’s case, with a trial scheduled to…
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Fight over who's allowed to say 'terrorism' drowns out ruling that mastermind's own torture makes his confession unusable.
“They spent the whole week fighting about whether you're allowed to say the word terrorism, like the word was ever what kept anybody safe. While that circus ran, a judge quietly tossed the actual confession because the CIA tortured it out of the guy, so now the trial's pushed to 2028 — twenty-seven years and counting. That's not a slow legal system, that's the government eating its own case, one torture session at a time, and calling the fight over vocabulary the news.”
“Look, nobody's defending torture, per se — we're defending calling a terrorist attack a terrorist attack, is that really so radical? The judge's ruling is a technicality, a chain-of-custody thing, it doesn't change what happened on that day — wait, did I just call the interrogation a technicality? That's not — that's not what I meant to say, let's move on to the flag incident.”
The receipts
Comedian and talk-show host Bill Maher tore into media groups on his show Friday night -- on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 -- over efforts to restrict use of the word “terrorism” -- even for brazen attacks designed to kill and maim people.
A man waving a Palestinian flag was booed by the crowd at Yankee Stadium on Friday night after he ran onto the field at precisely 9:11 p.m. on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Loud boos could be heard echoing through the stadium as security tackled and detained the man in center field […]
Sept. 11 represented a new kind of national security threat, and a new national security architecture was created to confront it.
Even on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the leftist media mob reached into its bags of dirty tricks to smear New York and the White House.
The lead organizer of a petition that collected signatures on behalf of families of 9/11 victims demanding NYC Mayor Mamdani stay away from the 25th anniversary of the attacks said he’s disappointed Hizzoner showed up.
Comedian Bill Maher called Democratic politicians “cowards” while doubling down on his stance that Sept. 11 hijackers were not – a position that infamously led to ABC canceling his show over two decades ago.
· CBC releases policy change after controversy about refusing to refer to 9/11 as ‘terrorist attacks’ from the morgue, 28 Aug 2026
· 9/11 victim families deliver petition to Mamdani at City Hall asking him to stay away from memorial ceremonies: ‘Disrespectful’ from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
· FDNY commish during 9/11 attacks slams Mamdani’s signing ceremony with terrorist’s lawyer, urges him to stay away from memorial from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
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