The Pentagon chief was caught off guard by last week's decision by prosecutors to offer deals to the men. United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has defended his decision to revoke controversial plea deals agreed between prosecutors and three men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Speaking publicly for the first time about his decision on Tuesday, Austin said it wasn't a decision that I took lightly and he did so to honour the scale of the loss that occurred that day.
I have long believed that the families of the victims, our service members, and the American public deserve the opportunity to see military commissions, commission trials carried out, he said at an event with visiting Australian officials in Annapolis, Maryland.
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