A military judge on Wednesday tossed out the confessions of a fourth defendant in the government’s 9/11 case.
3,000 Americans were killed in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon, and a downed plane in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Walid bin Attash is accused of helping train two of the hijackers.
“Tell the judge that I am very proud for my part in the Planes Operation,” Walid bin Attash said to federal agents on January 24, 2007 — the first day of the interrogations, according to The New York Times.
The judge, Lt. Col Michael Schrama, ruled that bin Attash’s previous confessions to the CIA were coerced and therefore not admissible.
This is the latest blow to the federal government.
The New York Times reported:
The judge in the Sept. 11 case on Wednesday excluded the last disputed confessions of a prisoner accused of conspiring in the attacks, once again denying prosecutors evidence they had defended for years as crucial to the case.
The statements were obtained through a program designed by Bush administration lawyers in 2007 because the defendants’ previous statements to the C.I.A. were considered coerced and could not be used against them.
But for the fifth time, a military judge found that confessions obtained by federal agents on so-called clean teams were not admissible.
Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, the judge, ruled that the agents failed to notify Walid bin Attash that what the C.I.A. extracted from him from 2003 to 2006 in forced interrogations could not be used against him. The judge also found that when F.B.I. agents brought treats to their interrogation room to gain Mr. bin Attash’s cooperation they were copying a technique sometimes used by the C.I.A. to keep a prisoner confessing.
Breaking news: The military judge just threw out the confessions of the fourth defendant in the 9/11 case, which has gone on so long in part because prosecutors fought hard to keep them. It’s a blow to the Bush administration’s clean team theory. 5-0.
https://t.co/mGVYZnd889— Carol Rosenberg (@carolrosenberg) October 8, 2026
In late August, a judge threw out a key confession made by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohmmed just two weeks before the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.
Recall that in July 2024, under the Biden Regime, three September 11 masterminds reached plea deals with the US government, the Department of Defense said.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and his co-conspirators Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawhi will avoid the death penalty in a pre-trial plea deal reached.
An appeals court later canceled that agreement, so the death penalty is back on the table.
On August 28, the New York Post reported that a military judge tossed out a confession by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Khalid Sheikh Mohhamed is currently detained at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center (Gitmo), a US Military prison in Cuba.
His trial is scheduled for 2028.
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