The trial date for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his cohorts for their role in the September 11, 2001 attacks, which were responsible for the deaths of 2,976 people, has been finally set.

For January 11, 2021.

Wrap your heads around that for a moment. Kids who were born the year of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil are now applying for colleges and signing up for Selective Service. They'll be able to vote in the next presidential election.

For those of us who went the through painful process of covering the evolution of the U.S. military tribunal at "Camp Justice" at Guantanamo Bay, the announcement that a date has been "set" means very little. Most observers don't think it'll happen, not in January 2021 or ever. Why?

Torture.

The U.S. military and the CIA took KSM and other high level detainees who later spent time at the infamous GTMO off the battlefield and into "black" interrogation sites that most Americans would rather forget ever existed. They tortured these individuals for information before bringing them to GTMO and then tortured them some more. Anyone who does not believe that has been living in a politically warped state of denial for the last 18 years.