How to Lose Your Freedoms and a War on a Tactic

Heckuva Job, as always, Chimpy:

A federal appeals court Thursday overturned the convictions of a Yemeni cleric and his deputy, finding they were prejudiced by inflammatory testimony about unrelated terrorism links in a case the United States once touted as a victory in its war against terrorism...

The three-judge panel took the unusual step of ordering the transfer of the case to a new judge.

And what the hell, it apparently featured testimony by right-wing bloggers.

Their trial featured testimony by an FBI informant who set himself on fire outside the White House, saying he wanted more money from the FBI...

The appeals court said the defendants were prejudiced by testimony from a Scottish law student who told of a deadly suicide bombing on a bus in Tel Aviv and by an American citizen of Yemeni heritage who attended an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan in 2001.

It said testimony about the camp and particularly the government's presentation of images of Osama bin Laden and a top aide was "highly inflammatory and irrelevant and should not have been permitted by the district court."