The United States concealed the existence of taped telephone calls between the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who spoke in code with three of his accused co-conspirators, according to the New York Times.
The existence of the tapes was revealed by their defense attorney, Jay Connell, as part of a protest over plans for prosecutors to use them as evidence at the death penalty trial more than 17 years after 19 hijackers took four commercial airplanes by force - crashing them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people according to the 9/11 Commission Report - aspects of which have been refuted by groups such as Architects & Engineers for 9/11 truth.
Defense attorneys have known of the tapes since September 30, 2016 - when prosecutors handed over audio and transcripts of the conversations, making clear that they intended to use them against the men at trial.
Connell - who questioned in court whether the tapes were recorded during the years that Mohammed and the other defendants were imprisoned in the CIA's secret prison system - is now arguing that the tapes should not be allowed as evidence in the death penalty trial, as the defendants' basic right to challenge the evidence being used against them are being violated.
Mr. Connell said the restriction on investigating the origins of the tapes violated a defendant's basic right to challenge the evidence being used against him.
Arguing for the government, prosecutor Clayton Trivett responded that defense attorneys should be allowed to question an FBI linguist who analyzed the tapes and compared the defendants' voices to determine that they belonged to Mohammed, his nephew al-Baluchi and the two other alleged plotters.
Colonel Pohl had said prosecutors could describe the evidence as having been acquired from "Telephone calls from between April and October 2001 that were later determined to pertain to the planned attacks on Sept. 11, 2001." -NYT. The Times notes that "The Hunt For KSM" author Terry McDermott said that he found during his research that US satellites "Randomly scooped up calls" between Mohammed and an alleged deputy, Ramzi bin al-Sihbh.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-25/united-states-concealed-secret-911-tapes-alleged-mastermind-plotting-co
The existence of the tapes was revealed by their defense attorney, Jay Connell, as part of a protest over plans for prosecutors to use them as evidence at the death penalty trial more than 17 years after 19 hijackers took four commercial airplanes by force - crashing them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people according to the 9/11 Commission Report - aspects of which have been refuted by groups such as Architects & Engineers for 9/11 truth.
Defense attorneys have known of the tapes since September 30, 2016 - when prosecutors handed over audio and transcripts of the conversations, making clear that they intended to use them against the men at trial.
Connell - who questioned in court whether the tapes were recorded during the years that Mohammed and the other defendants were imprisoned in the CIA's secret prison system - is now arguing that the tapes should not be allowed as evidence in the death penalty trial, as the defendants' basic right to challenge the evidence being used against them are being violated.
Mr. Connell said the restriction on investigating the origins of the tapes violated a defendant's basic right to challenge the evidence being used against him.
Arguing for the government, prosecutor Clayton Trivett responded that defense attorneys should be allowed to question an FBI linguist who analyzed the tapes and compared the defendants' voices to determine that they belonged to Mohammed, his nephew al-Baluchi and the two other alleged plotters.
Colonel Pohl had said prosecutors could describe the evidence as having been acquired from "Telephone calls from between April and October 2001 that were later determined to pertain to the planned attacks on Sept. 11, 2001." -NYT. The Times notes that "The Hunt For KSM" author Terry McDermott said that he found during his research that US satellites "Randomly scooped up calls" between Mohammed and an alleged deputy, Ramzi bin al-Sihbh.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-25/united-states-concealed-secret-911-tapes-alleged-mastermind-plotting-co
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