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Judge McCall is wrapping up for the day. He says he'll meet with KSM's team, ex parte, at 9 a.m. tomorrow to hear their theories of defense to help him evaluate the prosecution's redactions and substitutions of evidence. No open court tomorrow. Logistics briefing on Wednesday.

Judge McCall: They say they don't have any more. What is the point of ordering it? Mr. Sowards seems to believe there is more to be surfaced. Mr. Swann says they turned over everything, and if they find something else, they'll get it.

Mr. Sowards says the behind-the-scenes players at Gitmo created the conditions for the FBI interrogations, defense need to question them. Mr. Swann: " I marshalled people. I just kept the wheels running." He says he trusted law enforcement to handle the interrogations.

The defense lawyer notes Mr. Swann's evident emotion why he argued. "Sometimes we get too close to the issues in the case," says Mr. Sowards, rather dryly. "Mr. Mohammed is presumed innocent."

Mr. Sowards says that it was CIA contractor James Mitchell who threatened to slit the boys' throats while pressing him to admit he killed Daniel Pearl-- and so KSM admitted to it.

Mr. Sowards' turn: Daniel Pearl had nothing to do with the circumstances of today's motion, reminds it is an effort to get enough eyewitness testimony to try to demonstrate that KSM was involuntarily compelled to confess to the FBI at Gitmo.

Mr. Swann: KSM has eight children, "that's the number that he killed." (Died on 9/11.) In response to the threat to slit the throats of two of them, Mr. Swann says the two young boys were "picked up" in a 2002 raid that captured a different case and were "treated well."

Mr. Swann dismisses Mr. Mohammed's lawyers' description of Mr. Mohammed's sexual assault. "He was rectally hydrated," says Mr. Swann, "because when he was first picked up he was dehydrated," and wouldn't drink water.

Mr. Swann also said that he saw KSM taken to his Gitmo interrogation, remained in the vicinity but decided not to watch it. "I wanted to see what a terrorist looked like," he said, "and quite frankly I was disappointed."

Prosecutor Swann says that, although prosecutors didn't charge it, KSM at one point at Guantanamo admitted to killing Daniel Pearl.

Lead prosecutor Bob Swann, a retired Army colonel is offering an emotional wide-ranging rebuttal: "Counsel may believe that torture is always in this courtroom but in January 2007 it was not." (Refers to KSM's FBI interrogation at Gitmo's Camp Echo, before the court was built.)

Mr. Sowards wants access to the people who observed the "clean team" interrogations, including a Navy lawyer at Guantanamo prison in 2006 and, sounds like, two current case prosecutors who were on hand as consultants. No recordings were made, so he wants to talk to them.

Nobody ever told Mr. Mohammed, says Mr. Sowards, that they had released his boys -- even nearly four years later when the FBI began to interrogate him. (They did.)

"Torture is only always in the room," says Mr. Sowards, blaming delays in getting the case to trial on government secrecy. He calls it "the collision between the incidents of torture in this case and the government's resistance to the disclosure of information."