More catching up on what I missed:

Prosecutors Seek to Limit Questioning in Terror Trial

WASHINGTON, April 23 — The Justice Department is seeking broad new powers to prosecute terrorist defendants by urging an appeals court to deny Zacarias Moussaoui the right to question a captured member of Al Qaeda who features prominently in his indictment, according to a newly declassified court brief made public today.

In the brief, which was classified as top secret when it was filed last month, the department said Mr. Moussaoui had no right to seek testimony from the captured Qaeda member, despite Mr. Moussaoui's claim that the testimony would prove he is not guilty. Mr. Moussaoui is the only person charged in an American court with conspiring in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

"An alien seized and detained abroad as an enemy combatant in the midst of a war is beyond the court's power to compel his presence for testimony,' the department said in the brief filed with an appeals court in Richmond, Va.

This really doesn't make any sense. Even if there is some kind of loophole that would disallow questioning by Moussaoui, why would you not want to hear it? If they're sure he's guilty, what would they have to fear by allowing him to question the member of Al Qaeda? At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, what do they want to hide? Is it just public relations, i.e. you have to convict somebody? Unsettling to say the least; what risk does the truth pose?