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The judge also set a new trial date for June 2028, pushing it back from prosecutors' requested January 2027 start.","category":"Conflict & Security","area":"United States","publishedAt":"2026-09-01T15:25:26.046Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-09-01T14:30:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-01T15:45:23.555Z","readTime":"3 min read","scores":{"trust":45,"critic":35,"hype":70,"notes":{"trust":"Only Fox News provides named sources and documents; digests lack detail.","critic":"No right of reply or clear separation of fact from comment.","hype":"Headlines and digests overstate Pentagon response not in the report."}},"tags":["#KhalidSheikhMohammed","#911Attacks","#MilitaryJustice","#DomesticExtremism","#CourtRuling"],"entities":["Lt. Col. Michael Schrama","Khalid Sheikh Mohammed","Fox News","Geller Report","CSIS"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["An Air Force judge, Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, has ruled that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 2007 confession in the 9/11 case was not voluntary and has therefore been dismissed.","Schrama has set the trial date for June 2028, rejecting prosecutors' request for a January 2027 start.","Schrama previously wrote in a 2023 essay that military extremism is fueled by 'conservative tendencies' reinforced by right-wing groups.","A 2021 CSIS study cited by Schrama indicated military personnel were responsible for 17.6% of domestic terrorism plots and attacks."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, an Air Force judge, has dismissed the 2007 confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. Schrama ruled that the confession was not given voluntarily. He also set the trial date for June 2028, declining prosecutors' request to begin the proceedings in January 2027. The decision could affect the long-delayed legal process for Mohammed, who has been held at Guantánamo Bay since 2003."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on trial date"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Fox News reports that Lt. Col. Michael Schrama set the 9/11 trial date for June 2028, not January 2027 as prosecutors requested. No other outlet specified the requested trial date or the date set by the judge."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the right-rated reports mention the Pentagon's actions beyond the judge's ruling. 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