After another few hundred thousand dollars of tax payer money, we have another mistrial.
It’s clear what happened here, a bunch of losers were contacted by an FBI informant, and they thought that he was al Queida, and that they could scam him out of money, uniforms, and maybe some assault rifles.
Fundamentally the real problem is that the material support statutes are so vague and so broad that the judge can’t throw this out of court with a big “BS” scrawled on the indictment.