He faced well over 200 charges, including the murder of hundreds of people in Africa. This was supposed to be the Obama Administration’s test case to demonstrate that, silly conservatives, of course we can try terrorism suspects in regular civilian court and get convictions. The evidence we obtained from the battlefield? We’re totally not worried about that.

Well, guess what? Last month the judge threw out a chunk of prosecution’s evidence because it’s inadmissible in a civilian court. It would have been accepted at a military tribunal but not in a civilian trial. Still, we were assured that the prosecution totally wasn’t worried about that development and that all was hunky-dory.

This evening a civilian jury cleared him on all but one charge — conspiracy. He faces as little as 25 years in jail for helping to murder hundreds of people, conspiring to kill Americans, and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.

Counts 11 through 223 were all murder charges. He was found not guilty on all of them. Again, because a civilian judge found the battlefield-acquired evidence inadmissible in a civilian courtroom.

The Department of Justice’s response to this horrid development? They’re pleased that he was convicted on one charge. The Obama Administration is pleased that a man who helped kill hundreds of people, a man who conspired to kill Americans and use weapons of mass destruction, will face as little as 25 years in jail.

A jihadist who helped kill hundreds of people was just acquitted by a civilian jury on all but one out of hundreds of charges. And the Obama Administration is pleased.

Gee, I can’t wait until Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is tried in the same courtroom. The acquittal will be, shall we say, interesting.

Update: Rick Wilson on Twitter gets it right.

Here’s the message for terrorists: kill over 200 people, get 20 years, three-hots-and-a-cot.

Yep.