Ted Olson withdraws support for 9/11 death penalty trial at Guantánamo.

Former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who once supported the government's decision to prosecute terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay, is now calling that effort "doomed from the start" and urging President Biden to settle the 9/11 case rather than pursue a death-penalty trial. Olson said Guantánamo's war court is "clearly not working" and that brokering plea agreements with the 9/11 defendants, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is "the only practical resolution" to the case, which has still not gone to trial more than two decades after the Sept. 11 attacks.