This would be funny if it wasn't so serious

Seems that Secretary Gates finally got around to signing the new military commission handbook (with little things like the rules and procedures) just a few hours before the first pretrial proceedings were starting this week....and of course no one down there even had a copy until late yesterday...

It is now available on line and you can click on this now if you want to see what the attorneys were faced with heading into court just as the rules were being unveiled.....

click on the title for more from Spencer Akcerman.

More on todays hearing here

and more on the new commission handbook here.......