One of the big issues this week will be the government's request to prevent torture details at the trials. Not only that, they are asking the court to limit the defense attorneys' ability to discuss such treatment with their clients. And it seems like the Court is going to go along.

On Twitter, you can follow Carole Rosenberg and PBS Frontline reporter Arun Rath. Hopefully more will be tweeting as the hearings progress.

Among the media who is there and will be arguing for openness this week, in addition to the ACLU:

ABC, Inc., Associated Press, Bloomberg News, CBS Broadcasting, Inc., Fox News Network, The Miami Herald and its parent McClatchy Co., National Public Radio, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Reuters, Tribune Company, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Show Trials. As the ACLU says:

“The government’s claim that it can keep from the public the defendants’ testimony about their ‘thoughts and experiences’ of torture is legally untenable and morally abhorrent,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project and the attorney who will argue the motion Wednesday. “There is an ongoing public debate about the fairness and transparency of the Guantánamo military commissions, and if the government succeeds in imposing its desired censorship regime, the commissions will certainly not be seen as legitimate.”