The Obama Administration and its DOJ is defeated in court with a 20 minute defense and no defense witnesses.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, charged in the deaths of 224 Americans and put on trial in a civilian court, was acquitted hours ago of all but one count of conspiracy-related charges, in a landmark civilian trial involving the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in civilian court.

This marks a monumental set-back for the clowns who are now running our government. Ghailani was on trail, facing 286 charges of conspiracy and terror related charges. He was found "not guilty" on 285 charges. He faces a sentence of 20 years on the one remaining charge, for which he was found guilty.

What will not be reported is the fact that his defense took only 20 minutes of the courts time and did not call a single witness. The defeat of Eric Holder's DOJ is as bad as one could possibly imagine. It is clear to all who have the ability to reason, that Ghailani should have been tried in a military court in GITMO. But, the Obama Administration closed that court and apparently has no plans to use Constitutionally sanctioned military courts to try terrorist taken into custody on the battlefield.

Ghailani was convicted by a federal jury on a single charge of conspiracy in connection with his part in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Again, 224 were killed in those bombings. He was taken into custody in 2004 in Pakistan and transferred to GITMO two years later. The primary prosecution witness had been waterboarded and his testimony against Ghailani was excluded from the trial for that reason. Without that witness, the prosecutions case was doomed.

The trial had been widely considered a test for the Obama administration, which has said that it could successfully try terrorist suspects such as KSM outside military tribunals and in civilian courts.

We now know that such is a pipe dream of this Administration. It is not known why the DOJ has decided to take such risks in their prosecution of the war on terror.