As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 nears, the biggest disgrace is that the attack's evil mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has not been tried and sentenced to death.

Blame the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in large part, for this injustice. The ACLU intervened at the start, insisting that the two military lawyers assigned to defend Mohammed and his codefendants "might not have death penalty experience" and were insufficient to battle "the full force of the U.S. government." What a pity.

The ACLU sent in its own team of expert capital defense lawyers, at a cost of millions of dollars. This team has been waging legal jihad year after year and getting away with it.

The terrorists' lawyers have strung out the military court proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, objecting that the defendants were not read their rights, and that waterboarding and other torture they endured at the hands of CIA agents prior to being incarcerated at Guantanamo invalidate even confessions they made years afterward.

The real torture victims are the 9/11 families who have waited too long 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 deserve nothing like that. Nor do they deserve the rights of legitimate soldiers protected by the Geneva........

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