Deborah Pearlstein, Director of the U.S. Law and Security Program at Human Rights First has posted on online diary of her observations of a week in the life of the military commission reviewing the cases of detainees at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. An excerpt:
Today was the first day of actual proceedings, and it began with another new rule. The other independent observers and I were handed an order from the Presiding Officer just minutes before proceedings began today, instructing us what would happen if classified or "protected" information was accidentally revealed in open court. Among other things, the order required us to turn over any notes we had taken so they could be reviewed and redacted if they contained such information. As it turned out, there was no occasion for the rule to be used today.
The rest of her diary can be read here.