The conditions included a presidential guarantee that the five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks would be spared solitary confinement.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will not approve conditions proposed by lawyers for 9/11 criminal defendants who are seeking a plea bargain, a National Security Council spokesperson confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday.
“The President concurred with the Secretary of Defense’s recommendation not to accept the Joint Policy Principles that had been proposed by the 9-11 defendants as a basis for plea negotiations,” the NSC spokesperson said.and defense lawyers to try to hash out an agreement on a plea bargain. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks targeting the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as well as those aboard Flight 93 which crashed in a Pennsylvania field.
Biden didn't feel it was appropriate to accept the"joint policy principles" as a basis for a pre-trial agreement in what were the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor, the National Security Council official said.
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