Found this at the “Gitmo Observer” web site - http://gitmoobserver.com
The Office Of Military Commissions - https://www.mc.mil/home.aspx
Best Takeaway - We will be able to read transcripts! - If we want to travel to Fort Meade, we could watch proceedings on CCTV.
>The Office of Military Commissions has set up a public viewing area and a victim/family member viewing area at the McGill >Training Center at Fort Meade, MD in separate rooms. During unclassified military commissions sessions, McGill will be open for >visitors unless Fort Meade has closed due to inclement weather or some other emergency condition.
This site is very comprehensive and describes all the Courts-Martail Rules. One thing I noticed while going through the calendar is that like regular courts, we can expect the upcoming proceedings to take a long time. In the open cases now, there are “Motion Hearings” scheduled several months out for each open case.
A couple huge differences I found when reading up - Military courts do not require Miranda warnings to have taken place for admissibility in court. Also, search warrants do not have to have been issued if evidence is collected outside the United States.
>Presenting Evidence in a Military Commission
>The rules of evidence for military commissions meet domestic and international legal standards while addressing battlefield >situations, and as such, differ in some ways from rules used in U.S. civilian courts. For example, evidence seized outside the >United States may not be excluded on the grounds it was not obtained pursuant to a search warrant. Similarly, statements of an >accused are not excludable merely because the accused was not read a Miranda warning. Instead, the rules of evidence for >military commissions focus on whether the evidence is reliable and probative, and if its admission is in the best interests of justice.
Here’s the page with a comparison to civilian courts:
Comparison of Rules and Procedures in Tribunals that Try Individuals for Alleged War Crimes - https://www.mc.mil/ABOUTUS/LegalSystemComparison.aspx