Thanks to a Leftist Judge, the Chief 9/11 Plotter Could Walk

If you weren’t yet born on September 11, 2001, you may find it mind-boggling that the trial of the jihadi who was primarily responsible for conceiving of the plot and bringing it to fruition is only now definitively planned to start — not this year, and not next year, but on June 5, 2028. There’s just one catch: on Friday, the trial judge, Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, ruled that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s 2007 confession is inadmissible, as it was obtained under torture.

But hey, look on the bright side: once KSM, as he is affectionately known, is acquitted, he can run for Congress as a Democratic Socialist. In the unlikely event that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) is deported, KSM is a solid fallback who is