Sacha Pfeiffer
Stories
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Law & Courts
Plea deals for 3 defendants behind the 9/11 attacks are back on the table
A Guantanamo Bay detention camp judge has reinstated plea deals with three Sept. 11 defendants, ruling that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was wrong to rescind them.
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National Security
Judge reinstates plea deals with three of the defendants connected to 9/11
A Gitmo judge has reinstated plea deals with three 9/11 defendants, ruling that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was wrong to rescind them.
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National Security
Did Lloyd Austin illegally rescind plea deals with 3 men charged in 9/11 attacks?
A Guantánamo judge will consider this week whether the defense secretary illegally rescinded plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other men charged in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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National
NPR joins petition to unseal plea deals reached with the alleged mastermind of 9/11
After plea deals in the 9/11 case were quickly reversed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, NPR has joined a petition for the deals to be unsealed by the U.S. military commissions.
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National
After 20 years in Guantanamo, 3 alleged Sept. 11 plotters will plead guilty
After nearly 2 decades in prison at Guantanamo Bay, three men accused of roles in the 9/11 terrorist attacks will plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence, rather than a death-penalty trial.
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National
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter of 9/11, agrees to plead guilty
Mohammed and two accomplices agreed to plead guilty in exchange for sentences of up to life in prison rather than face a death-penalty trial.
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National
Defense Department reaches plea agreement with 3 of the men charged in 9/11 attacks
The U.S. Defense Department has reached a plea agreement with three of the five men charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad.
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National
The hosts of the '5-4' podcast irreverently examine the Supreme Court's term
How do the self-described "leftist" hosts of the hit Supreme Court podcast "5-4" size up the high court's latest term? NPR speaks with the lawyers behind the irreverent show.
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Business
Examining the economic policy of J.D. Vance, Trump's vice presidential nominee
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance's approach to economic policy.
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Technology
What happens when law enforcement wants to break into someone's smartphone?
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to David Gee of Cellebrite, a company that sells tools to law enforcement to help them access locked smartphones. The FBI is a customer.
