Holder raises question on Sept. 11 death penalty (AP)

In this image provided by CBS Attorney General Eric Holder listens to a question from CBS Newsâ?? Bob Schieffer during a July 8, 2010, taped interview on â??Face the Nationâ? in Aspen, Colo. While they passed along no U.S. secrets, the 10 Russian sleeper agents involved in the spy swap posed a potential threat to the U.S. and received 'hundreds of thousands of dollars' from Russia, Holder said Sunday, July 11. 'Russia considered these people as very important to their intelligence-gathering activities,' he said. (AP Photo/CBS, Daniel Bayer) NO ARCHIVES. NO SALES.AP – Attorney General Eric Holder says there’s a real question about whether a terrorist suspect such as self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can face the death penalty if he were to plead guilty before a military commission.


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