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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Withdraws from KSM Plea Deal; Who Is Susan Escallier? · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: and if you wanted to. Now. Finally, today, amidst all
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  Speaker 1: his excitement, I have to say what I thought found
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  Speaker 1: on Friday night was so exciting because Lloyd Austin, yes
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd Austin, the Defense Secretary, named names in this plead trial,
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  Speaker 1: a plea deal agreement fiasco. I came to the other
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  Speaker 1: day saying, you know, remember how we made a plea
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  Speaker 1: deal with terrorists, the masterminds of nine to eleven. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the other night, late Friday, it was breaking that this
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  Speaker 1: is that was going to be reversed. And in this
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  Speaker 1: letter from Lloyd Austin to the public and specifically to
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  Speaker 1: one Susan Escalier E s C A L l I R.
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  Speaker 1: The Convening Authority for Military Commissions, she wrote. He wrote
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  Speaker 1: to her, I am determined that in lighted the significance
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  Speaker 1: of the decision to enter into pre trial agreements with
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  Speaker 1: the accused in the above reference case. Authority to enter
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  Speaker 1: pre trilier groom in the United States first collegiate Muhammad
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  Speaker 1: at the United States versus college check Mohammad for the
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  Speaker 1: United States versus while in Mohammed Sali. Yeah, you know
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  Speaker 1: the list goes on. Responsibility for such a decision should
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  Speaker 1: rest with me, as a superior convening authority under the
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  Speaker 1: Military Commissions Act of two thousand and nine, fifteen years ago,
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  Speaker 1: effective immediately, I hereby withdraw your authority in the above
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  Speaker 1: reference case to enter into a pre trial agreement and
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  Speaker 1: reserve such authority to myself. I hereby withdraw from the
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  Speaker 1: pre trial agreements that you signed on July thirty first,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four in the above reference case. So this
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  Speaker 1: was not just released to her, Susan Escalier. This will
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  Speaker 1: release the public. But now that we know who was
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  Speaker 1: behind the Plea deal agreements here on the Alex Garrett
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  Speaker 1: podcast Network, to have one leg up in the Defense Department,
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  Speaker 1: you know we gotta do next. We have to call
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  Speaker 1: for the resignation and maybe even the firing of Susan Ascalier,
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  Speaker 1: this convenient authority for military commissions. Who is she to
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  Speaker 1: make a deal like this without maybe even consulting the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. For a guy who
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  Speaker 1: has gone a wall before because of hospitalizations, he should
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  Speaker 1: just hold the president by the way he finally stepped
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  Speaker 1: up here. That is a big deal and this reversal
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  Speaker 1: should be broadcast everywhere. But now he should take it
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  Speaker 1: a step further. Whoever agreed to pre trial agreement and
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  Speaker 1: made the agreement on behalf of the military should be fired.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't like calling for people's heads, but lately,
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  Speaker 1: lately I've been seeing it. I've been seeing the need
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  Speaker 1: we had to call out the resignation or firing of
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Cheetle. Now he should call out the firing or
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  Speaker 1: resignation of Susan Escalier. Who is she? Well, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: take a look at the bio real fast for you,
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  Speaker 1: because this name is now synonymous with the Plea deal,
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  Speaker 1: and of course, acil you reach out, she basically is
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  Speaker 1: if I look at this is in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: Guantanamo military commissions convening Authority. She's a retired Brigadier General
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  Speaker 1: Susan Escalier, And here's the deal. She was commissioned in
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  Speaker 1: the US Army Signal Corps upon graduation from the University
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  Speaker 1: of California, so she's got military background. She was the
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  Speaker 1: recently Assistant Judge Advocate General for Military Law and Operations
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  Speaker 1: including Trial Council the five hundred and fifth Parachute Infantry,
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  Speaker 1: and she has been on the legal side of the military.
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  Speaker 1: She was in the Coalition Humanitarian Assistants Provisional Authority in
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  Speaker 1: the Iraq War. She was senior operational law observer and
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  Speaker 1: trainer for the Battle Command and Training Program. Deputy Staff
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  Speaker 1: Judge Advocate for Symmetry Division, Legal advisor to the Security
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  Speaker 1: Grooment Secretary Secretariat, Military Judge the Division of the Army.
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  Speaker 1: So she's decorated, and being in the military, you wonder
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  Speaker 1: why she would dare enter a plea deal with this,
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  Speaker 1: with these terrorists who's she's fought against ill a military,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like. And so, Brigadier Escalier, this is embarrassing
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  Speaker 1: for you, and I hope maybe and you know, you're decorated.
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  Speaker 1: This kind of idea of entering a plea deal with terrorists,
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  Speaker 1: warrants your resignation. Thank you for your service, But now
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  Speaker 1: this is too much, especially for the all Americans, for
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  Speaker 1: the families of nine to eleven victims, for the nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven victims, for what we went through on September eleven,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and one. This is too much. You might
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  Speaker 1: think because you're decorated, and as President trumpas said, in
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  Speaker 1: your air conditioned offices, right, he said that before, to
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  Speaker 1: make all these decisions in your air conditioned office. But
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  Speaker 1: look what it's done. It's ripped open another wound that
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  Speaker 1: the body massician already ripped open in twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 1: with the failed evacuation of Afghanistan. Withdrawal from Afghanistan, the
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  Speaker 1: hits do just keep on coming. And Secretary Austin, you
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  Speaker 1: appointed her, Now you can also fire her in addition
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  Speaker 1: to overriding her, because we don't want somebody in there
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be doing plea deos. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if they're decorated or not. Titles don't matter in the
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  Speaker 1: sense of decision making. You are the most decorative military person.
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  Speaker 1: But you give pleados to terrorists, you shouldn't have a job.
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  Speaker 1: The next day. This has to go over and beyond
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  Speaker 1: withdrawal of the plea deal. There has to be more consequences,
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Austin, So take that next step asking to resign,
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  Speaker 1: appoint someone who is who's not going to do this
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  Speaker 1: kind of nonsense, and straighten out your department, or this
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  Speaker 1: withdrawal will be just a show because the person who
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  Speaker 1: made it will still be there. Don't make it a show,
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  Speaker 1: make it real. Make this a real withdrawal of a
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  Speaker 1: plea deal with terrorists. By firing or asking forcing Brigadier
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  Speaker 1: Susan Escalier to step aside, that is a dishonorable discharge.
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