[catnipman]

Once again, this was done deliberately in order to weaken the U.S. justice system and to set precedents that will make it impossible to fight foreign terrorism and even impossible to ever again effectively fight a foreign war.

These people are not incompetent boobs (well, OK, Holder is), but rather brilliant strategists bent on destroying the might of the United States in order to turn it into nothing more than "just one nation amongst hundreds". It will take a constitutional amendment to undo the damage that this trial will produce.

[nikos1121]

Theier attorney has already hinted that they will proceed with a defense based something on the order of
“self defense”...or to prove justifiction for what they did.
In other words throw out there the US atrocities to the Muslim faith etc etc. Then show that what they did was an act of preservation.