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Mohammed's and the 9/11 conspirators arraignment in 2008. and one point there was court testimony about the medications that were being given to al sheed to sedate him because he'd been uncooperative. at that point the white noise went on and we weren't allowed to hear anything about what the medications were and we asked why. we told that his hippa medical privacy rights had to be protected. he was a detainee who had been at black side prison for years, cut off from any access to any lawyer or any trial, denied any rights at all, but they were protecting his medical privacy rights. in this ca...

2008. and one point there was court testimony about the medications that were being given to al sheeb to sedate him because he'd been uncooperative. at that point the white noise went on and we weren't allowed to hear anything about what the medications were and we asked why. we told that his hippa medical privacy rights had to be protected. ramzi binalshibh he was a detainee who had been at black side prison for years, cut off from any access to any lawyer or any trial, denied any rights at all, but they were protecting his medical privacy rights. in this case, the same sort of circumstances ...

Bagram air force base. they identified him. his name was joseph klaus. and klaus, in fact, had identified himself. he had given public interviews saying he was the interrogator at bagram who questioned omar khadr but for that reason because the reporters were excluded for publishing what was public information. there's just so much around here. i mean, to me among the most absurd, surreal aspects is all the restrictions on what you can take pictures of. you can't take pictures of the coastline here at guantanamo. there's a courtroom right behind me that we are barred from showing to you. there...

And human rights groups have caused an outcry over this saying how can you put on trial somebody who was a teenager at the time of the alleged crimes. today a united nations official, top united nations official denounced the administration for proceeding with this case, saying it will endanger the status of child soldiers all over the world, that people like khadr should be considered victims, not war criminals. >> in terms of your ability to cover this trial, not only those controversial elements but being able to report on the way this process works now and what's going to happen to mr. kha...

Or reason. joining us now is michael isikoff. thanks for joining us tonight. >> reporter: great to be with you, rachel. >> first of all, give us the big picture on the trial that you're covering there, what this means and how important a case this is. >> reporter: well, it's actually a very big deal. the case is that of omar cotter, a canadian detainee accused of lobbing a hand grenade that killed an american specials forces medic in a firefight in afghanistan eight years ago. as i think you indicated, it's the first big test of the new revamped, improved, obama military commissions. and how i...