JAG Hunter bullet: Secret hearing on 26 April. Huh? Other closed hearings? Is this what "as accessible as possible" means? Were these Art. 32 hearings? Or something else?

3 Witnesses at Iraq Abuse Hearing Refused to Testify

Their refusal indicates that key players in the abuse scandal may be closing ranks to save themselves and one another.

By Richard A. Serrano
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer (posted at KTLA.com, CA)

WASHINGTON -- "Three key witnesses, including a senior officer in charge of interrogations, refused to testify during a secret hearing against an alleged ringleader of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal on the grounds that they might incriminate themselves."